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[Niklas Wenzel <nikwen.developer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Thank you for your reply. :)

Am Mo, 20. Okt, 2014 um 3:53 schrieb John Lenton 
<john.lenton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On 20 Oct 2014 06:14, "Niklas Wenzel" <nikwen.developer@xxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> >  Thanks a lot. This works perfectly for me. Please allow me to ask 
> > one more question. Can I restart the account-polld process somehow 
> > after installing the new package or do I always need to reboot?
>
> You can restart account-polld by entering “restart account-polld”.

Ah, I previously ran that command prefixed with sudo and that didn't 
work.

> >  Regarding the issues I found: Often, when there is an issue with 
> > polling the mail server (which happens quite often, partially due to 
> > a bug in the go language), account-polld will stop polling the 
> > server for this account until the next reboot.
>
> If something goes wrong with an account it should stop polling for a
> few polls, but not forever, so if you are seeing that it would
> certainly be a bug. You can trigger polls manually over dbus:
>
> gdbus call --session -d com.ubuntu.AccountPolld -o
> /com/ubuntu/AccountPolld -m com.ubuntu.AccountPolld.Poll

Well, without my changes it does stop for me. Due to the following line 
it never tries to connect again: 
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-push-hackers/account-polld/trunk/view/head:/cmd/account-polld/account_manager.go#L118

Oh, that's great. That will speed development up a lot.

> What “bug in the go language”?
>
> >  I'm using this launchpad branch to push my changes to my Nexus 4 
> > for building the packages I test: 
> > https://code.launchpad.net/~nikwen/account-polld/bug-fixes
>
> taking a look...
>
> >  Whilst the current version works around a major bug I encountered, 
> > it's definitely not ready yet.
>
> from a quick glance at the branch, I'm assuming what you're calling
> the major bug is it not resetting the failure count on an account if
> the account is updated?

The major issue was related to the line I linked to above. When an 
account failed, it never tried to authenticate again.

> Can you please be more precise and/or specific when describing these 
> things?
>
> >  I'll keep working on it and will submit the patch with a better 
> > commit message later. The only problem is that account-polld runs in 
> > five minute intervals so debugging is quite time-consuming...
> >
> >  Thanks again. :)
> >
> >  Niklas
> >
> >  Am So, 19. Okt, 2014 um 10:18 schrieb John Lenton 
> > <john.lenton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> > >  Care to share what you see going wrong, and what you think will 
> > > fix it? I'm interested in what you found. The easiest way to build 
> > > it on the phone is to get the build dependencies through apt, for 
> > > which yes you need a writeable image. Once you've got that, the 
> > > easiest (but not quickest) way of building it is just 
> > > "dpkg-buildpackage" (you might want to install fakeroot though). 
> > > It's also possible to build it by hand, but it's a faff. On 19 
> > > October 2014 17:11, Niklas Wenzel <nikwen.developer@xxxxxxxxx> 
> > > wrote:
> > > >  Hi, Ever since GMail notificiations were introduced, they haven't 
> > > > been working well for me on my Nexus 4. I've reinstalled the 
> > > > system quite a few times since then (partly to test whether it 
> > > > would change the working status of the push notifications) but it 
> > > > didn't help. About one and a half months ago, I even sent a mail 
> > > > (well, actually two mails) to the package maintainer of the 
> > > > account-polld package but I never got an answer. Therefore, I 
> > > > decided to look into the problem myself now. When observing log 
> > > > files today, I noticed that it wasn't just one bug which kept 
> > > > notifications from working but multiple ones. I know where the 
> > > > problem lies in the code and I think that I will be able to figure 
> > > > out how to fix it. What I don't know, however, is how to test my 
> > > > changes. How can I compile and test the account-polld package on 
> > > > my Nexus 4? Does it require a writeable image? Thank you very much 
> > > > in advance. :) Kind regards, Niklas -- Mailing list: 
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