[Users] OVirt 3.3.2 Snapshot Pane empty in Firefox

[Daniel Erez]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Markus Stockhausen" <stockhausen at collogia.de>
> To: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>, "ovirt-users" <users at ovirt.org>, "Daniel Erez" <derez at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Allon Mureinik" <amureini at redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 1:33:38 PM
> Subject: AW: [Users] OVirt 3.3.2 Snapshot Pane empty in Firefox
> 
> > Von: Itamar Heim [iheim at redhat.com]
> > Gesendet: Sonntag, 26. Januar 2014 11:52
> > An: Markus Stockhausen; ovirt-users; Daniel Erez
> > Cc: Allon Mureinik
> > Betreff: Re: [Users] OVirt 3.3.2 Snapshot Pane empty in Firefox
> > 
> > On 01/23/2014 12:49 PM, Markus Stockhausen wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I had a mysterios behaviour in the webinterface twice this week.
> > > The Snapshot list of a VM remained empty in Firefox although
> > > I know that snapshots exist.
> > >
> > > The "Create Snapshot" button was still working and issued the
> > > right commands. Nevertheless the list remained empty.
> > >
> > > Opening an IE session prooved that everything was ok. The
> > > pane was populated with the list of snapshots. After restarting
> > > Firefox everything was fine again.
> > >
> > > Has anybody experienced simialr issues and if yes is there
> > > already an opn BZ for that?
> > >
> > > Markus
> > >
> > >
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> > 
> > derez?
> >
> 
> Got the same behaviour again this morning. But now I have
> hopefully a good idea. I unlocked my screen and the last OVirt
> session in the (Firefox) browser has flipped back to the login
> screen.
> 
> I relogged in and directly jumped to the snapshot pane. It was
> empty and the create button worked as usual. Nevertheless
> the autorefresh did not work. The pane simply stayed empty
> even after creating three snapshots in a row. Btw. the log
> history showed all the actions I was doing.
> 
> To be sure that is the reason I left a Ovirt admin browser window
> open. Now for over 2 hours without a switchback to the login
> page.
> 
> Any idea how I can force that behaviour? A normal cycle of
> logout/login does not produce the error.

Could be indeed related to the session timeout, some issues
regarding have been addressed in 3.4. The default timeout
is 30 minutes defined by UserSessionTimeOutInterval in
vdc_options table. Can you consistently reproduce the issue 
on timeout? Which version of Firefox are you using?

> 
> Markus
> 
>