[AG-TECH] venue client problems

Randy Groves randy.groves at boeing.com
Tue Jul 27 09:43:55 CDT 2004


It might be instructive to add one of those 'deeper' venues to your 
MyVenues list (so you can go directly there after venue client startup) and 
see if it is the navigation to the deeper venues that is causing the 
problem and not the position of the venue in the hierarchy.

-randy

At 06:39 AM 7/27/2004, 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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