[Planetlab-devel] Re: api sessions & other issues with the web UI

[Faiyaz Ahmed]

As a compromise then, I'll tag an rc2 for the node software and wait for 
more fixes and the OK from you and Tony before pushing a MyPLC rc2 tag. 
  Sound good?

Thierry, thoughts?


Faiyaz

Reid Moran wrote:
> I dont think we should rush this at all.  There are still plenty of 
> things to fix and APIs to tighten up, I dont think we are ready to push 
> out a new RC yet, unless we want to get in the habit of pushing them out 
> weekly, which defeats the purpose.  No rush, let's make sure we got 
> things fixed first, give users more of a chance to hammer it so we can 
> find areas of lag and fix them, along with other major bugs we may have 
> missed.
> 
> -Reid
> 
> 
> Faiyaz Ahmed wrote:
>> Yes, a new rc candidate will likely be checked into CVS late today or 
>> early next week after some preliminary testing.  Clearly the website 
>> has had a good number of fixes applied to it, the node software 
>> (especially NM) has seen a great deal of additions, and a few other 
>> minor things including but not limited to the Bootmanager and pl_mom 
>> have had some work done to them.
>>
>> It would only make sense to bump the release.  I will email the list 
>> when its ready.
>>
>>
>>
>> F
>>
>> Thierry Parmentelat wrote:
>>> Thanks Reid, it does help
>>> My repositories are uptodate - wrt HEAD. Should I use another update 
>>> strategy to get these changes ?
>>> Btw, are there any plans to build an rc2 for this planetlab-4.0 ?
>>> Thierry
>>>
>>> Reid Moran wrote:
>>>> We already fixed this bug, update your repositories.  The GetEvents 
>>>> calls was somehow destroying each user's session when they accessed 
>>>> a page making that call.  I have changed the web pages so that only 
>>>> admins can even access that call.  This fixes the problem, we are 
>>>> looking into the GetEvents call and redoing the API to make it work 
>>>> better right now.
>>>>
>>>> Hope this helps.
>>>>
>>>> -Reid
>>>>
>>>> Thierry Parmentelat wrote:
>>>>> Hi Reid
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm experiencing a bug in the web UI.  I'm having this issue on the 
>>>>> one-lab site but not on planet-lab.org:
>>>>> Whenever a given node's details are displayed, the web session 
>>>>> becomes useless; the api session gets rejected by the API and any 
>>>>> given subsequent call to the API fails. It turns out the session 
>>>>> entry in the database somehow gets wiped off.
>>>>>
>>>>> On my site I've found out that I could getting rid of the issue if 
>>>>> I did not call GetEvents in nodes/index.php
>>>>>
>>>>> Does this ring any bell ? It sounds like an issue that appeared on 
>>>>> your website a while ago, that you guys probably have fixed.
>>>>> ==
>>>>> On a similar track, I've found that UpdateNode.py needed a patch 
>>>>> for regular users to be able to change their node's boot state. 
>>>>> Again this is an issue that appeared in the support ML so I take it 
>>>>> you've found out already.
>>>>>
>>>>> ==
>>>>> I've also tweaked the nodes browser to support patterns in hostnames.
>>>>> I am about to commit my changes, and will of course describe all 
>>>>> these changes in the cvs log so you can keep up.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hope this helps - Thierry
>>>>
>>>
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