Now I am obviously wondering whether IBM has missed to remove/disable debug information before shipping the code to the customer. This suspicion is boosted by the notices.txt file in the LotusTraveler directory on my mobile phone claiming to contain ‘NOTICES AND INFORMATION’ for ‘IBM Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5.2 – Beta’.

As with the previous issues I have submitted this problem to IBM for further investigation. It would be nice to know though if anyone else is having similar issues.

Update 02/09/10 – response from IBM:

Sorry for the inconvenience – it is a debug switch – shouldn’t hurt
anything.  It has been fixed in the next release of 852 which we be
available around 9/17.

Please download the newer version after 9/17 and install.  With the
Lotus Installer application on the device, the users should be prompted
to automatically update their clients.

The issue I am facing is an error message on our Nokia mobile phones on checking for new updates using the update installer:

“The response indicates that the server does not support Lotus Installer”

Strangely enough I have been able to upgrade one phone using this method without any issues, all subsequent attempts from there onwards failed and I am a bit stuck due to the lack of detail of information on this feature on the web. Did anyone else run into this issue today or during the beta phase? I have also opened a PMR with IBM. I will update this post as I am receiving updates.

Update 26/08/10:
Just figured out the main cause of the issue. The domlog.nsf records the URL request of the Update Installer application from the mobile phone, which looks similar to that:

server.domain.com/servlet/traveler?action=checkForUpdate&deviceType=NokiaS60-5.0&version=0&appName=Lotus%20Installer

You can open this url in the browser of your PC and will receive a response similar to this:

DownloadLink=/traveler/LotusInstaller/LotusInstaller.sisx
Version=8.5.2.0 201007201801

As always, the devil lies is in the detail. Before getting to the response I had to enter my username and password in the browser, which made me think that this could be the actual issue.
Again, checking the domlog.nsf, I realised that the request from the Update Installer is an unauthenticated one, hence making it impossible for the application to receive the response.

The possible workaround is also explaining why I had been able to run the update once. The phone still had an open connection to the server in the browser session, which made the Lotus Installer request an authenticated one as well. Guess that’s the workaround for now until IBM comes back with a permanent fix on this as I don’t fancy allowing anonymous access to the Traveler servlet itself.

The only item catching my eye so far is the altered directory for traveler problem reports. In the past they were located in a folder named traveler\logs\tprs in the Domino data directory. This has now changed and the files can be found in the IBM_TECHNICAL_SUPPORT\traveler\logs\tprs directory.

This is important for organisations that have employed some kind of process to get the problem reports picked up and processed automatically from this directory.

Some details on TPRS can be found here.

IBM technical support is referring to this as the “home screen issue” and is working with Nokia on a solution. In the meantime you can request a test fix from IBM that will disable the Traveler home screen. Feel free to quote PMR 36532.120.796 if you are experiencing similar issues.