#7181 NORM Never A: Unusual Chat behavior on joining a chat

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#7181: Unusual Chat behavior on joining a chat
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  Reporter:  Charlie        |       Owner:  morgs         
      Type:  defect         |      Status:  new           
  Priority:  normal         |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
 Component:  chat-activity  |     Version:  Build 703     
Resolution:                 |    Keywords:                
  Verified:  0              |    Blocking:                
 Blockedby:                 |  
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Comment(by Charlie):

 Replying to [comment:1 morgs]:
 > Charlie, for all collaboration-related issues, it's critical that we
 know the following details:
 >
 >  * Were you collaborating via simple mesh (no access point), access
 point with no jabber server, access point with jabber server, or mesh to a
 schoolserver (no access point).
 >   * Especially, jabber server vs no jabber server. The difference is
 whether telepathy-gabble (jabber server) or telepathy-salut (no jabber
 server) is being used.

 Both laptops were using salut and were on a schoolserver every time I
 reproduced the bug, according to olpc-netstatus.

 >  * Log files. See
 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Attaching_Sugar_Logs_to_Tickets - in particular,
 the log file from the relevant activity (org.laptop.Chat-1.log in this
 case - or Chat-2 etc if you opened it multiple times) and
 presenceservice.log. These should be from the XO that demonstrated the
 problem, although we may ask for logs from the other machine too if
 necessary.

 I'm going to try reproducing the bug and will attach logs that are
 generated. (Update: the bug occurred again and I'll be attaching the logs
 -- hopefully they came out right.)

 >  * Activity version number, if the activity isn't installed in the build
 (although in this case AFAIK it is in the build and is Chat-35.xo with
 cscott's translation patch applied).
 >
 > That said, joining a shared Chat should show "_____ is here" for each
 participant already in the shared activity when you join.
 >
 > "Charlie-Peru left the chat" indicates that subsequent to joining,
 Presence Service detected that that XO had left the shared activity, and
 then the next message shows that it joined again. This could be due to
 network issues which caused the XO to vanish and reappear.
 >
 > The cause could be anywhere in the collaboration/presence/network stack,
 so if you can reproduce the issue, we would need more log files - the
 telepathy log files with LM_DEBUG and/or GIBBER_DEBUG as detailed in
 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Telepathy_debugging.
 >
 > If you can't reproduce the issue, then that's basically the state of our
 collaboration system: strange things happen from time to time, due to
 unreliabilities in multiple layers of the system... the problem you are
 reporting isn't preventing actual collaboration, and isn't due to Chat
 itself but other components of the system.
 >

 When I originally showed cscott and mstone the bug, I was already aware
 that the first message was supposed to display; it was the second two
 message that confused me.

 > PS If you can't reproduce, please close the ticket, as this report alone
 unfortunately isn't enough to take further.

 Noted for future reference.

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