[SailfishDevel] sporadic bouts of "Could not connect to MerSDK Virtual Machine. Timeout waiting for reply from server."

[Tone Kastlunger]

Hi I for once happen to get the issue every once in a while even during
binary deployment.
Best,
tk

On Thursday, May 29, 2014, Christopher Lamb <christopher.lamb at thurweb.ch>
wrote:

> Hi All
>
> I am still suffering from this issue, and getting more and more frustrated!
>
> Right now "it" is refusing to deploy as RPM to the Emulator.
>
> Is anything I can do to better debug / understand this issue?
>
> The timeout settings previously suggested are probably red-herrings, as
> they apply to the device (phone / Emulator), whereas the error is a timeout
> to the SDK.
>
> All help greatly appreciated.
>
> Grüsse
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> On 28.04.14 08:01, christopher.lamb at thurweb.ch wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Thanks.
>
> I found a well hidden {1} timeout setting in the preferences / devices and
> increased this from the default 2 secs to 10 secs. This does seem to help,
> but as always with sporadic problems only time will tell if this is a fix,
> or if the problem is just dormant for a while.
>
> What I don't understand is, given the error says "Could not connect to
>
> MerSDK Virtual Machine" why should a timeout for connecting to a Jolla
> device play any role?
>
>
> Is the error misleading? is the problem actually in connecting FROM the
> MerSDK to the Jolla?
>
> Chris
>
> {1} when the preferences pane opens, at least on my OSX host the timeout
> setting is "offscreen" in an embedded pane with scroll bars in the middle
> of the preferences pane. Only if you scroll down in the embedded pane are
> further settings including the timeout revealed. Truly a wonderful bit of
> UI design 8-)
>
>
>
> Zitat von fasza2mobile at gmail.com:
>
>  I believe the  timeout setting can be adjusted in QtCreator where you set
> up your mer device(ssh password, etc). By increasing this value you can
> probably prevent the timeout issue altogether. I don't have the SDK in
> front of me to give you the exact menu you need to open, but it isn't too
> hard to find once you know what you're looking for.
>
> On Sat Apr 26 2014 13:41:20 GMT+0100 (BST), christopher.lamb at thurweb.ch
> wrote:
>
> Hi All
>
> I am suffering from sporadic bouts of the error: "Could not connect to
> MerSDK Virtual Machine. Timeout waiting for reply from server"
>
> One moment I can be happily hacking and deploying code to my Jolla
> without error. Then I make a small change to the code, try to deploy,
> and bing! the error rears its ugly head once again like a scandinavian
> troll from under a bridge.
>
>
> Project ERROR: Could not connect to MerSDK Virtual Machine. Timeout
> waiting for reply from server.
> 14:02:28: The process
> "/Users/christopherlamb/.config/SailfishAlpha4/mer-sdk-
> tools/MerSDK/SailfishOS-armv7hl/deploy" exited with code
> 1.
> Error while building/deploying project landed26_QT5 (kit:
> MerSDK-SailfishOS-armv7hl)
> When executing step 'Rpm'
> 14:02:28: Elapsed time: 00:27.
>
>
> When the error occurs, there seem to be at least 2 variants:
>
> 1) It will successfully deploy "As binaries" without error, but will
> give the error on "deploy as RPM".
>
> 2) Any kind of deploy gives the error.
>
>
> The strange thing is, that despite the error, it does seem to
> (sometimes) deploy (or possibly partially deploy) code.
>
> Right now I am getting the error in constellation 1), so according to
> the error a "deploy as RPM" should fail. Yet the test below indicates
> that it is at least partially deploying code.
>
>
> [root at Jolla javascript]# pwd
> /usr/share/landed26_QT5/qml/javascript
> [root at Jolla javascript]#
> [root at Jolla javascript]# ls -ahl
> total 52K
> drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  180 2014-04-26 13:56 .
> drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  110 2014-04-26 13:56 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.2K 2014-04-26 13:55 jsonpath.js
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.3K 2014-04-26 13:55 jsonSupport.js
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  349 2014-04-26 13:55 landed.js
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2K 2014-04-26 13:55 message.js
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8.4K 2014-04-26 13:55 readDataModel.js
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8.8K 2014-02-03 08:32 settingsDB.js
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.2K 2014-04-26 13:55 writeDataModel.js
>
> //create new file testDeploy.js in QtCreator, then attempt deploy as
> RPM. Error is generated. Repeat attempt to deploy as RPM. Error is
> generated again.
> //but testDeploy.js is now on the Jolla!
>
> [root at Jolla javascript]# ls -ahl
> total 56K
> drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  206 2014-04-26 14:01 .
> drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  110 2014-04-26 14:01 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.2K 2014-04-26 14:00 jsonpath.js
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.3K 2014-04-26 14:00 jsonSupport.js
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  349 2014-04-26 14:00 landed.js
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2K 2014-04-26 14:00 message.js
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8.4K 2014-04-26 14:00 readDataModel.js
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8.8K 2014-02-03 08:32 settingsDB.js
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   38 2014-04-26 14:00 testDeploy
>
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