[cobalt-users] Buggy GUI

["Robert Davis" <rdavis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ahoy

Hey, is it just me, or is this RaQ2 GUI whiz-bang admin thing just buggy as
hell?

Here's what happens:

1) I dial up http://ipnumber:port83/sysManage/index.html and everything
comes up fine. But, from here on, if I try to return to this frameset by
clicking on "Server Management", I have about a sixty percent chance that
the main frame will generate a 404. Sometimes, just for variety, both the
main frame and the bottom frame will not be found. When this happens,
reloading does not help. I must shut down the browser and restart. For
instance, I get "a connection with the server cannot be established" just
about every single time when returning from a user list to server
management.

2) About a third of the time, any of the CGIs may return a 500. When this
happens, I can go back, punch it again and again, and eventually it is apt
to work.

3) About a tenth of the time, I get JavaScript errors. When this happens, I
must shut down the browser and restart.

4) Sometimes, I get a blank page for the main frame.

5) Sometimes, graphics won't load.

6) Sometimes, these CGIs time out. Always, they run slow as hell.



Not all of the GUI is this unreliable. Maintenance tools and system status
tools seem pretty stable, for instance. The site management and server
management is the worst.  But, still, if I were to write a program as buggy
as this, I would feel compelled to take it home and square it away on my own
time before I shipped it to the customer's site. Wouldn't you?



Other strange bugs are not necessarily GUI related.:

1) Neither Win 95 telnet nor Mocha will run top. The header appears, but not
the pid list. NetTerm will run top just fine. What the heck is up with that?

2) Sometimes, mail will go down. I re-start the server, and it's back to
fine.

3) On one occasion, the host and domain name of one site got switched with
the host name of another site, and vice versa. In other words, the full boat
for that_site was suddenly www.this_site.com.that_site.com, while the full b
oat for this_site was www.www.this_site.com. I dove into httpd.conf and
couldn't believe what was written there. It was all shuffled up. After I
edited all that, I had to painstakingly re-create all users before they
could get mail.


Seems like every day, there is some other illogicality waiting in the wings.
Here's my questions:

Does everyone have this ragged experience, or is it just me?
Does this box eventually settle in and run right, or is it always going to
be like this?

Aloha
Robert Davis
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