World: r3wp

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 :)

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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!

install Altme on the other PC !

Who is reporting this ?

So I'm not the only one with the SQLite goup problem..

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.

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

A new world has several attractions.

But if the problems lie in the codebase and/or the backup strategy, 
then they will recur..

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"

42 is the code for the Linux version

Are you sure you are entering the correct password?

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 ...

Sure, but it's more important to remember your password

Are you over age 55 ?

Not yet. Would that solve your problem?

Paper is patient, we say here in the Netherlands. Dunno if it's also 
an English proverb

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

That's exactly why you should record things

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

Unfortunately true. :-) I stay indoors because I feel like the paper 
boxes

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

It's probably too simple :-)

Anyway, it should be easy to pay some Russian kid to get it back 
for you

Can you reset it and email me ?

No, I'm not a world master (he said grinding his teeth)

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 ...

I'm sorry to hear that

WeltMeister?

In my childhood we still had the word "tinker" for one who mends 
holes in pots ...

In German, but that carries the notion of world champion. More benevolent 
than a master

AH so. Sensei-san.

Soo ... des-ne?

'tre'  would be a good  three-char password

Haven't had a Japanese girlfriend yet, so I'm less fluent in Japanese...

Ah - learn while sleeping method ...

:-)

and I am back via LINUX  libc6... so I can count higher than 3  ;-)

Robert, if you rigth click on your name here, it will allow you to 
change your password.

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

darn.... I was soooooo close  ;-)

[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.

hehe

:-)

Wow, I wasn't even trying! :)

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.