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loads config etc and blocks in waitpid when I strace the wuala script...

this is behind a company-firewall that does no forwarding from the internet to the wuala host

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write(1, "Using config file /home/patrick/"..., 48Using config file /home/patrick/.config/wualarc
) = 48
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
stat64("/home/patrick/.config/wualarc", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=49, ...}) = 0
geteuid32() = 9015
getegid32() = 9001
getuid32() = 9015
getgid32() = 9001
access("/home/patrick/.config/wualarc", R_OK) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
stat64("/home/patrick/.config/wualarc", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=49, ...}) = 0
open("/home/patrick/.config/wualarc", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=49, ...}) = 0
read(3, "WUALADIR=/home/patrick/wuala/\nJA"..., 49) = 49
close(3) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
stat64("/home/patrick/wuala/", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
stat64("/home", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat64("/home/patrick", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=8192, ...}) = 0
stat64("/home/patrick/wuala", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
chdir("/home/patrick/wuala") = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [INT CHLD], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [INT CHLD], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [INT CHLD], NULL, 8) = 0
clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0xb7da1708) = 22676
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x8081ac0, [], 0}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
waitpid(-1,

hi there,

a main problem with the wuala project as whole is, that there is far too little information on technical details, far too little documentation and real information given by the developers.

people often wonder why the wuala software behaves this or the other way, search for solutions that are sometimes no real problems if the behaviour would be properly documented.

i started up some older build (winxp) wuala client after a while of downtime and it upgraded itself.
after logging in to the wuala network (username) the wuala client now works heavily on the wuala database files in probably reoganisation tasks (fragmentsxx.db and COMP-fragmentsxx.db files being messed with the whole time)

anyways so it literally took ages for this client to finish, and the connection status icon was yellow all the time. only after a long while, and when finally the insane diskactivity has finished, the connection status icon went green again.

ctrl+alt+d _shownetworkstats displayed that it wasnt connected to any supernodes during this period, hence the yellow icon i presume.

what makes me wonder if this is a neccessary behviour, that the client cant properly connect to the network until its finished with its database overhaul. maybe some multithreading designs could help, or maybe its just really the need to bring the database into a consistant and up-to-date state again before being able to add and fetch chunks of data again to and from it.

it would really be great if the wuala team could document its piece of software much more in detail.

hi there,

apparently there is a new feature during startup, named database cleanup. defragmentation of the datastorage or such.

interestingly i have never seen this window up til now, but it comes up during every restart of the wuala client (win32, b446).

is this the normal behaviour?

I've had two times now that when I start Wuala up everything is being added to my downloads list.I have no clue why it does that, and I have a lot of files so I have to manually delete them from my download list since clicking clear list does not work.