Gary, When I was working on my book I tried using the SUGAR_PROFILE environment variable for the first time. (Previously I had used two computers to test). It worked like a charm on F10 (Sugar .82) but on F11 both instances of sugar-emulator came up as THE SAME USER.
Also, when I tried using sugar-jhbuild on F11 I found that it came up as user "James Simmons" both times, never prompting me to enter a name. I asked this very list about this and was told that from .84 (I think) onwards SUGAR_PROFILE does not work and that I should run either sugar-jhbuild or sugar-emulator as separate Linux users. Someone suggested using ssh -XY for the second user. This did seem to resolve the problem of getting multiple users with the same name. With sugar-jhbuild the second user came up as "Annie Simmons" (the name on the second Linux user id) without prompting for a name. I wrote up what I was told here: http://en.flossmanuals.net/ActivitiesGuideSugar/SugarCollaboration If this is NOT correct I want to know about it. I would have to say based on my own experience that this at least *seems* to be correct. I don't want to lead John and others like him astray. James Simmons On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Gary C Martin <g...@garycmartin.com> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > On 17 Mar 2010, at 14:45, James Simmons wrote: > >> Tomeu and everyone, >> >> John is trying to follow my instructions on setting up a collaboration >> test environment for his Sugar Activity. It isn't working for him on >> F12 and I couldn't get my own test environment working on F11. All >> the testing I did for the book was on F10 using Salut with the F10 >> firewall program disabled. I think my instructions are good as far as >> they go, but there may be security issues preventing them from >> working. The only thing I can think of that MIGHT help is to use >> jabber.sugarlabs.org as a server. It seems to me that has worked for >> me on F11 in the past. The problem I had with it when it didn't work >> recently was that I could see others on the network but my instances >> could not see each other. I believe this was caused by configuration >> on the server that limited the number of active users. >> >> If anyone can help him he'd be grateful. The only things I can suggest are: >> >> 1). Use jabber.sugarlabs.org instead of Salut. >> 2). As a *last* resort, downgrade to F10 and disable the firewall. > > FWIW: under 0.86.x (pretty sure, certainly 0.84.x) I could test local > (gabble) in F11 using sugar-jhbuild by launching two instances of sugar using > the SUGAR_PROFILE=..... environment variable. > > I've just tried to retest this now that my F11 environment is running the > latest Sugar 0.87.x and it will only launch one (the first) instance. > Additional invocations for other SUGAR_PROFILE=.... values just hang with no > console output unless you first kill the previous process (so not much use > for testing collaboration anymore). > > SUGAR_PROFILE=1 ./sugar-jhbuild run sugar-emulator & <---- pops up file > SUGAR_PROFILE=2 ./sugar-jhbuild run sugar-emulator & <---- have to kill > above process before it appears > > Any one else seeing this? I can open a ticket if someone tells me which logs > would be of use for debugging this. > > Regards, > --Gary > > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel