Chat room module doesnt work...no features displayed also

I applied you patch, but that didn't fix it for me.
Do you have any direction for me to help find the problem ?

I'm not sure I understand you very well ... do you mean I have to apply commit 60009 to fix it ?

I just applied it, and now the messages look like they are sent (they disappear from the line), but nothing appears in the big chat window (and the chatroom summary says the chat has 0 messages).

BTW, with the uncompressed jQuery, I get something like 'jQuery not defined' in the javascript console, and some things don't work. I replaced it with the compressed one, and now the error I've got is:

Error: chatroom is not defined
Source File: http://test.parateam.com/sites/all/modules/chatroom/chatroom.js
Line: 661

The line 661 is " chatroom.hasfocus = false;" in chatroomFocusHandler(e).

Nope, still nothing. Does it work with stock 5.1 for you ? Maybe I have some parasitic modules ...

It still doesn't work. It looks like the text is sent, but nothing arrives to the server (in the log, I can only see series of successful POST /sites/all/modules/chatroom/chatroomread.php).
I went as far as disabling a series of unrelated modules (they showed some CSS warnings in the error console), and I even tried with IE to be sure (that one had certainly nothing is the cache, it was its 1st time on internet).

BTW, when I tried with 'links' (textmode, no javascript), sending a line made it POST /search/node - that doesn't look good. But then, I suck at javascript, so I don't know how all this is intended to work.

BTW, here is an excerpt from the generated code ("show source" from the browser):

      <!-- start main content -->
      <div id="chatroom-container"><div id="chatroom-board"></div><div class="clear-both"></div>

<div id="chatroom-textentry">
<span class="chatroom-textentry-title">Type your message</span><br/><br/>
<input type="text" id="chatroom-msg-input" size="50" />
<input type="submit" id="chatroom-msg-submit" value="Send" />
<div class="chatroom-textentry-options"><label><input type="checkbox" id="chatroom-msg-away" /> set my status to "away"</label></div>
</div>
</div>            <!-- end main content -->

(Still from a javascript-ignorant guy) how can that send something to the server ?

Thanks,
Xav

After digging further, it finally looks like the message makes it to the server. Here is what a tcpdump capture gives me (hostname is edited, only the 3 interesting packets are there):

POST /sites/all/modules/chatroom/chatroomread.php HTTP/1.1
Host: test.XXX.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061208 Firefox/2.0.0.1
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
Referer: http://test.XXX.com/chatrooms/chat/1
Content-Length: 260
Cookie: PHPSESSID=cb73939e9c7d39743cd01a92864b464d
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache

chatroomMsg=Hello&smileys_base=sites%2Fall%2Fmodules%2Fsmileys&chatroom_base=sites%2Fall%2Fmodules%2Fchatroom&update_count=7&user_base=modules%2Fuser&chat_id=1&last_msg_id=0&timezone=3600&timestamp=1173716949&chat_cache_file=%2Ftmp%2Fdrupal_chat_cache%2Fchat_1

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:29:16 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.34 (Debian) mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a PHP/4.4.4-8 mod_ssl/2.8.25 OpenSSL/0.9.8c DAV/1.0.3
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.4-8
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
 
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How can I trace that inside Drupal now ?

Thanks
Xav

OK, I've sent you the address by mail.

Thanks Darren,
Xav

Thanks to Darren's debug version, I found the problem: my sites/ directory is in fact a symlink to somewhere else, and chatroom's code tries to go back to drupal's root by doing '..' and ends up in the wrong directory.
Of course, as it does chdir() before bootstrapping drupal, it doesn't have the convenience functions to find the root easily by itself. I wonder though if there's a proper means of doing that ?

OK, that works now.
Thanks Darren !

Xav