Re: [Rudel-devel] "Could not join session"

[Jan M. <sc...@gm...>]

Hi.

> I couldn't find a mailing list for users, so I'm posting my query here. 
> Sorry if this is inappropriate.

It's OK. For bug reports there is also the issue tracker at
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=249139

> I'm running sobby on my machine. When I run Gobby (version 0.4), it asks
> for the host (localhost), port (6522), and a username. I can then connect
> and start working.
> 
> When I run rudel-join-session, it asks for:
> 
> protocol backend: obby
> transport backend: tcp
> server: localhost
> port: 6522
> encryption: y
> username: some name
> color: some colour
> global password: I leave this blank. What should I provide here?
> user password: I leave this blank. What should I provide here?

Looks okay - Password are not supported currently, but using empty
strings should be fine.

> In the *Messages* buffer, I get the following:
> 
> Discovering Sessions ...
> Initializing Zeroconf ...
> Discovering Sessions ...
> Use encryption (Required by Gobby server, not supported by Rudel server)? (y or n) 
> Received Obby welcome message (version 8)
> Joining done [2 times]
> if: Could not join session
> 
> Could you please give me some hint about what I might be doing wrong?

No obvious errors so far. I suppose, you chose to use encryption as the
prompt indicated?

> Versions, etc.:
> 
> 1. sobby 0.4.5-1ubuntu2
> 2. GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) of 2010-09-02
>    on rutherfordium, modified by Debian
> 3. rudel from subversion (checked out on March 7)

I don't have any experience with sobby, but if it works like a gobby
server, there should not be any problems due to that.

The svn version of Rudel is rather outdated. Maybe you could try the bzr
version? Sorry.

Also, encrypted connections (as required for communication with gobby
and probably sobby) currently rely on the external gnutls-cli program.
The program can be installed via the gnutls-bin Debian package.

Good luck,
Jan