Re: [eboard-devel] {BUG eboard 1.1.1} eboard loses movestate on connection loss

[Simon V. <v....@ie...>]

Luuk van der Duim un jour écrivit:
> Hello,
> 
> When playing on FICS and when my wireless network connection fails and
> needs to be re-established, eboard gets confused and makes my clock run
> but I cannot move. Resulting in lost games and a frustrated user.
> 
> Any suggestions?

You can try the command « refresh »; it sometimes works and won't makes 
the situation worst.

For what it's worth, I believe it is related with a similar problem where 
there is confusion between FICS and eboard.

There seems to be a race condition, which should'nt surprise anyone that 
ever picked a look at the eboard networking code (I had to after it 
stopped working on PowerPC, and some of the hack seems to work only by 
sheer luck).

This race condition show up more often when there is lag, and give exactly 
the same symptoms you reported and usually the only solution is to 
disconnect and reconnect to FICS, and sometime only restarting eboard will 
do it.

Probably related to that bug, eboard will usually reach an infinite loop 
if you let it open until FICS disconnect it.


I think those 3 problems are all related, and the real solution would be 
to rewrite large parts of the networking code so as to have a clean, 
portable, much more stable (and maintainable) code.

I never bothered to try, partly because I've been told (maybe 2 years ago) 
that the author planned to eventualy rewrite eboard, but it seems it never 
happened, or if it did then it took a new name.


Sorry for giving you an explanation instead of a solution, but for now 
that is all I have to offer you unless someone have time to fix/rewrite 
the networking code.


Simon Valiquette