Loss of communication on Ubuntu 14.04.1

[MikaylaRay44]

While running SDL Core on Ubuntu 14.04.1 (64-bit) through VMWare 7 there is a loss of communication that occurs randomly while testing connected apps. Buttons on the emulator and phone may be pressed, but the communication from the emulator to the phone does not occur despite seeing a connected status and the current screen on the emulator is unnavigable.

Closing the app on the phone does not update the connection status on the emulator, so to fix this issue it requires restarting VMWare 7 and the phone being used for debugging. Doing one or the other does not seem to solve the issue.

[mikeburke106]

We think this issue might be limited to Ubuntu 14.04. We'll try to capture some logs next time it happens.

[MikaylaRay44]

I found a pattern that is causing the behavior: When the emulator on VMWare 7 goes to the lock screen for Ubuntu and I restart the application on the phone it does not always recognize that connection has been lost with the phone. When you unlock the screen you will see the last displayed screen it remembers, but no messages will be communicated when you interact with it.

Even if I manage to get it to recognize that the app is disconnected, then I have problems reconnecting it and can only do so after restarting core.

[justinjdickow]

Closing this issue as something that only happens in debug builds of SDL core running on computers rather than head units