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[!AltME] Discussion about AltME

Sunanda
7-Nov-2010
[5105]
AltME broken for me....


Background: this morning my Windows computer froze and I had to cycle 
the power on it. (AltME was running, but nothing to suggest that 
AltME was the cause of the problem).


After a reboot, AltME would not start -- complained there was a file 
it could not read.


No worries....I deleted the entire REBOL3 folder, and restarted AltME.


After it had downloaded 40+ meg of messages, all should have been 
back to normal. But the resync process got itself stuck, continually 
resyncing the SQLite group.


I have since tried downloading the whole world again; and I have 
uninstalled AltME completely and started again from scratch. Same 
problem.


Now, if I restart AltME, it looks okay at first. But, if I click 
into the SQLite group (or if someone posts a message to that group) 
the endless resync starts up again.


I am not seeing the problem on a different machine where I have not 
reinstalled AltME.

This is like the opposite of the ancient resync bug :)

***


I suspect the SQLite folder is somehow corrupt on the server; but 
the corruption only triggers trouble on a fresh install.....If so, 
we will all see it eventually :(

Can someone copy this to whoever maintains AltME? Thanks!
GrahamC
7-Nov-2010
[5106x2]
install Altme on the other PC !
Who is reporting this ?
Izkata
7-Nov-2010
[5108]
So I'm not the only one with the SQLite goup problem..
Sunanda
8-Nov-2010
[5109x3]
Thanks.....Good to know it's not just me.
Peter Wood has sent me his SQLite file (439.set). Thanks Peter!

Copying that over the one in the /chat folder seems to have cured 
the problem.


So it looks like the server has a corrupt version that it sends out 
on a fresh install.
I've sent a Feedback to REBOL.com.
Gabriele
8-Nov-2010
[5112x2]
Well... at this point... given that the more time goes on the harder 
it will be to fix this world, why don't we just make a new one?
or, move to Qtask :P
Sunanda
8-Nov-2010
[5114]
A new world has several attractions.

But if the problems lie in the codebase and/or the backup strategy, 
then they will recur..
RobertS
8-Nov-2010
[5115]
I posted an Altme issue over at Accounts this AM - as I relented 
and put  a 1.2+ (the page said 0.42 ??? )  on my Ubuntu netbook - 
it now connects - but then rejects my account - which is working 
from this Windows box 1.2.25   Must be me.  3-letter word for dolt 
... let's see ... "usr"
Kaj
8-Nov-2010
[5116x2]
42 is the code for the Linux version
Are you sure you are entering the correct password?
RobertS
8-Nov-2010
[5118]
If I could reset it HERE, that would not be an issue.  As I say I 
can both count to 3 and recite the alphabet ;-)  Whyever is it not 
in Settings by now?  There must be a good reason ...
Kaj
8-Nov-2010
[5119]
Sure, but it's more important to remember your password
RobertS
8-Nov-2010
[5120]
Are you over age 55 ?
Kaj
8-Nov-2010
[5121x2]
Not yet. Would that solve your problem?
Paper is patient, we say here in the Netherlands. Dunno if it's also 
an English proverb
RobertS
8-Nov-2010
[5123]
Well, at 25 I could still remember library of congress call numbers 
for books I had read ...  now anything I don't use on a weekly basis 
is GONE unless it is from the period 1957 to 1965
Kaj
8-Nov-2010
[5124]
That's exactly why you should record things
RobertS
8-Nov-2010
[5125x2]
Nope.  Just moved in boxes to another country.  And in the Netherlands 
those boxes could easily get soggy wet, No?
Including my Dutch dictionary and Eng-Dutch dictionary
Kaj
8-Nov-2010
[5127]
Unfortunately true. :-) I stay indoors because I feel like the paper 
boxes
RobertS
8-Nov-2010
[5128x3]
Here it has rained for days, the river is known to flood -  and I 
live down by the river ( but not on the yearly flood plain )
But who could forget a 3-character password?
Duh
Kaj
8-Nov-2010
[5131x2]
It's probably too simple :-)
Anyway, it should be easy to pay some Russian kid to get it back 
for you
RobertS
8-Nov-2010
[5133]
Can you reset it and email me ?
Kaj
8-Nov-2010
[5134]
No, I'm not a world master (he said grinding his teeth)
RobertS
8-Nov-2010
[5135]
The Russian hacker I know is actually dying in St Petersburg -  of 
Marfan's Syndrome due to poor medical care - his brother has started 
med school to try to save him ...
Kaj
8-Nov-2010
[5136]
I'm sorry to hear that
RobertS
8-Nov-2010
[5137x2]
WeltMeister?
In my childhood we still had the word "tinker" for one who mends 
holes in pots ...
Kaj
8-Nov-2010
[5139]
In German, but that carries the notion of world champion. More benevolent 
than a master
RobertS
8-Nov-2010
[5140x3]
AH so. Sensei-san.
Soo ... des-ne?
'tre'  would be a good  three-char password
Kaj
8-Nov-2010
[5143]
Haven't had a Japanese girlfriend yet, so I'm less fluent in Japanese...
RobertS
8-Nov-2010
[5144]
Ah - learn while sleeping method ...
Kaj
8-Nov-2010
[5145]
:-)
RobertS
8-Nov-2010
[5146]
and I am back via LINUX  libc6... so I can count higher than 3  ;-)
Gabriele
9-Nov-2010
[5147]
Robert, if you rigth click on your name here, it will allow you to 
change your password.
Sunanda
10-Nov-2010
[5148]
That 150,000th [web-public] post took a little longer than I anticipated 
last week (it seems we all stopped posting web-public once the possibility 
was mentioned).


But it has happened now -- congratulations to BrianH and his comment 
on R3's break/return:
    http://www.rebol.org/aga-display-posts.r?post=r3wp824x176


No word yet on whether he'll be flying to Romania to treat himself 
to the prize Kaj wanted :)
    http://www.rebol.org/aga-display-posts.r?post=r3wp151x5092
Maxim
10-Nov-2010
[5149]
darn.... I was soooooo close  ;-)
Sunanda
10-Nov-2010
[5150]
[So was I:) I could have cheated and posted 150,000th myself.....But 
that would have been cheating)
Nevermind, Maxim, 250,000th is the big one.
Maxim
10-Nov-2010
[5151]
hehe
Kaj
10-Nov-2010
[5152]
:-)
BrianH
10-Nov-2010
[5153]
Wow, I wasn't even trying! :)
Henrik
16-Nov-2010
[5154]
I noticed something interesting: When you are reading a red group, 
the column in the left hand side is colored yellow for unread posts. 
When switching group, there is for me a waiting period of about 2-3 
seconds, for large groups before the new group appears.


However before the group switches, the coloration disappears, suggesting 
that a redraw of the list takes place before the switch. If this 
redraw was removed, switching columns might take much less time, 
perhaps half as long.