Re: [be] Secure Internet Repository problems

[Teus Benschop]

On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 16:20 +0900, Oreo Warpok wrote:
> Three months ago, I set up our team with Bibledit (I think 4.1) on
> five computers. Four of these computers are in Papua, Indonesia, and
> before I left, a change entered on one would be mirrored on the others
> in about 12 seconds. (There must have been a good Internet connection
> on that day.) I set up a 5th computer in the states, but frequently
> could not verify that changes on my end were being mirrored in Papua.

So it worked while you were there. Was Anna's computer one of those four
in Papua that worked?

> 
> 
> Upon coming back to Papua, I find that one of the computers had
> NOTHING entered in the ssh blank, the fifth screen of Preferences >
> Remote Repository. I believe my team members that no one fiddled with
> the settings, as that user never plays around with such things. So how
> could the ssh: field become blank?

This is a big question. I remember that some settings got lost in some
very old versions of bibledit, but in newer versions I have yet to see
that happen.

> 
> 
> When I arrived back in Papua, I came with a new Netbook on which I
> already had Bibledit running. And due to other problems, our team
> member Anna needed to have the operating system reinstalled on her
> computer. I have copied my .bibledit directory to Anna's computer. I
> installed my compiled version of Bibledit 4.1 on her computer also. My
> main problem is this: In several configurations, I have been able to
> go through the whole Remote Repository set up on both computers with
> no errors. Pushing to the remote repository works. But when we are
> done, changes made on one computer are still not mirrored on the
> other, no matter how long we wait.

With version 4.1 one can wait and wait, and nothing will be
synchronized. This is because in the recent versions of bibledit-gtk,
automatic synchronisation has been disabled. One needs to Send/Receive
to get synchronisation to work. It is in menu File / Projects.

> 
> 
> On my computer, I was able to set up sharing with our original
> repository using my old ssh secure keys. My new computer has a
> different name, so when sharing didn't happen, I generated new ssh
> keys, and updated sourceforge.net, I rebooted, and was able to get the
> Remote Repository setup all completed. Still nothing was shared with
> Anna.

> On Anna's machine, which is installed with the same name, I could get
> sharing to work (according to what Bibledit showed) using her original
> ssh secure keys. But there was no sharing to my computer. So I
> regenerated new ssh keys for her machine also, updated
> sourceforge.net, rebooted, redid the Remote Repository set up, and
> STILL there was no sharing.

> So I figured that my repository at Sourceforge just was not working.
> So I created a new sourceforge project, implemented Git on that
> project, initialized the database, and added team members as project
> members. Once again, I set up Preferences > Remote Repository in
> Bibledit on my machine and Anna's. The process completes on both
> machines without errors. BUT STILL EVEN IMMEDIATELY AFTERWARD, THERE
> IS NO SHARING/MIRRORING OF DATA.
> 
> 
> During the set-up, if I push my data to the repository, that works.
> Because when I do the set-up on Anna's machine and clone the data, my
> data then appears on Anna's machine. But afterward, there is no
> mirroring of changes.

In all these cases, try File / Projects / Send-Receive. Explanation
above.


> 
> 
> Has anyone else experienced such problems?

We are not aware of that.

> 
> 
> My suggestion for the Bibledit program is that there be a little green
> "sharing" light that will light up when communication is actually
> taking place with a remote repository. That way, when I am not in
> Indonesia, my team members could easily tell me if their sharing is
> working or not. And I would know in America that my changes were at
> least making it to the repository.

Another way of doing this is to look into the System log. It would
indicate whether system synchronises its changes with the repository.
But of course, Send/Receive needs to be done first.
> 
> 
> Any help on this would be greatly appreciated! Below is my log file.
> 

Regards, Teus