From rbasch at MIT.EDU Wed Aug 2 15:27:47 2006 From: rbasch at MIT.EDU (Robert Basch) Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 15:27:47 -0400 Subject: [Wocky] Adium auto-reconnect issue In-Reply-To: <61AFB0CA-E909-43A9-B34A-26F359C4501E@mit.edu> References: <200605161756.k4GHuZs8030098@egyptian-gods.mit.edu> <61AFB0CA-E909-43A9-B34A-26F359C4501E@mit.edu> Message-ID: On May 25, 2006, at 5:19 PM, Robert Basch wrote: > On May 16, 2006, at 1:56 PM, Greg Hudson wrote: > >> * Report this issue upstream to Adium. Bob, I'm dropping this on >> your plate. > > Done -- http://trac.adiumx.com/ticket/4180 Looks like a patch to fix this was just applied to the upstream source tree. The fix is not to attempt to auto-reconnect after a resource conflict. Bob From ghudson at MIT.EDU Fri Aug 25 10:28:51 2006 From: ghudson at MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson) Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:28:51 -0400 Subject: [Wocky] MSN crash due to server behavior change Message-ID: Today a consultant reported seeing Gaim crash under Solaris. A backtrace revealed that it was trying to connect to an MSN account, didn't get the fields it expected from the server, and didn't do enough error-checking to avoid a crash under those circumstances. A little net research turned up this: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1554621&forum_id=665 The Gaim developers have released a fix to 2.0.0 beta 3 to fix the problem, but not to the stable 1.5 branch. This problem may affect Adium as well. I don't know how widespread the use of MSN is with Gaim or Adium at MIT, but if we receive a substantial number of complaints, we may want to backport the upstream fix to 1.5 and release it. For now, the workaround is to disable your MSN account and use a different client if you need to connect to MSN.