[AG-TECH] venue client problems

[Monika Rabarison]

I am on a 2.2 PIG running on XP and get kicked off and 
asked to reconnect about every 5 minutes in the Lobby. 

Monika 

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, ULM AccessGrid wrote:

> Same here, I get kicked off more often then not.  When I first get into the
> main venue I usually can stay on about 50% of the time at least for a couple
> of hours.  For every level I drop down into the venues I only have a 50%
> chance again to stay in that venue (50% of 50% is 25% and so on and so
> forth).  One I get kicked off that's the end.  It just kicks and kicks and
> etc...   The only way to get my chances again is to close the venue client
> completely(making sure all python processes die because sometimes they
> don't) and restarting the venue client.  This gets me back to my chances
> again.  It usually takes me around 10 times to get into the venue I need to
> get into.
> 
> And now that you mention it, it does seem to get faster when it invites me
> again and then kicks me over and over again.
> 
> I am on 2.2 on a Multi-Node with Windows running my Venue Client and audio
> and Fedora running my Video.
> 
> Just thought that I would let you know it's not just you :-)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Adam Taylor
> Computing Center
> University of Louisiana at Monroe
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf
> Of Markus Buchhorn
> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 9:47 PM
> To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: [AG-TECH] venue client problems
> 
> Hi all at ag-dev
> 
> On a 2.2 node (venue client on Windows) I can enter and move around the APAG
> venue server (2.1.2 from memory?) fine, but have all sorts of problems
> entering and moving around the ANL venue server. Typical behaviour is
> 
>  1. I get kicked off, 
>  2. I get invited to reconnect
>  3. I get kicked off before I have fully reconnected
>  4. Repeat 2-3 at ever faster rate.
> 
> Occassionally I get in and can stay in, on the main Lobby venue. If I try
> and enter the Institutional Lobby though it takes a looooong time, and then
> eventually enters the main Lobby again - not letting me drop down to lower
> venues at all. Then after all a while I get kicked off (see above :-) ).
> 
> Also: There doesn't seem to be any way to say to the venue client to cancel
> an attempt to enter a venue. So if there's any problems getting into a
> venue, it effectively hangs the venue client. Timeouts might help, but
> there's too many places where some delays might occur. It'd be nice if the
> venue client could provide fairly detailed state-information as to where it
> is up to when changing venues ('killing/ed rat, killing/ed vic, entering/ed
> venue, starting/ed vic, starting/ed rat, things should be normal now, ...'
> :-) ). 
> 
> Is there any plan for a minor update to 2.2 to fix these things (if you know
> what is causing them), or is 2.3 close? scglobal is looming.
> 
> Cheers,
> 	Markus
> 
> Markus Buchhorn, ANU Internet Futures Group,      |Ph: +61 2 61258810
> Markus.Buchhorn at anu.edu.au, mail: Bldg #108 CS&IT |Fx: +61 2 61259805
> The Australian National University, Canberra 0200 |Mob: 0417 281429
> 

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Monika Rabarison
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Jackson State University
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