Remote connect akonadiconsole <-> akonadiserver?

[Volker Krause]

On Tuesday 15 June 2010 11:32:32 Rolf Offermanns wrote:
> On 06/15/2010 11:15 AM, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 15. Juni 2010 10:24:07 schrieb Rolf Offermanns:
> >> On 06/15/2010 10:10 AM, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> >>> Am Montag, 14. Juni 2010 10:41:09 schrieb Volker Krause:
> >>>> It works fine between the
> >>>> Maemo emulator and the host system but not with the real device. I
> >>>> guess it's due to some endian issues with D-Bus, never got around to
> >>>> debug that though so far :-(
> >>>
> >>> Is there a public report about this already?
> >>> Then somebody else could try to push the point a bit further...
> >>
> >> Just for the record: ARM and X86 have the same endianess...
> >
> > As far as I know is x86 little endian and ARM is bi,
> > but it seems that the N900 is little endian, too.
> > (My python sys.byteorder says 'little'.)
>
> ARM processors are usually little endian. Some of them are capable of
> running in little and big endian modes, but little endian is by far the
> most common mode. Big endian is commonly used in network devices to
> avoid the endian conversion on "the line" (ntohl, htonl and friends).

you are right, it was indeed not an endianess problem but an issue with D-Bus 
authentication. Marc figured it out, you need to have the same UID on the 
client and server for this to work, and the N900 uses the rather uncommon 
value of 29999 there. It's all documented on techbase now: 
http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/PIM/Akonadi/Development_Tools#Remote_Debugging

regards
Volker
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