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pidgin package

irc: periodic '/who' polling causes connection drops

Bug #856631 reported by Steve Magoun
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Pidgin
Fix Released
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pidgin (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre

Bug Description

After upgrading from 11.04 to 11.10, I found that pidgin was frequently (~20x/day) losing its connection to an IRC server. Other users on the channels I'm in reported I was disconnected with a 'Max SendQ exceeded' message. Pidgin reported simply 'Connection reset by peer'.

After a bit of debugging I found that recent versions of Pidgin now send a periodic '/who' for all channels the client is connected to. If you're in a lot of channels, or the channels have a lot of people in them (or both!), the server's send buffer can fill up resulting in the client being kicked.

The attached patch works around the problem by disabling the periodic /who altogether. I think a more correct fix would put a delay in irc_who_channel_timeout so that we wait a bit after sending each /who.

Bug is present in pidgin 1:2.10.0-0ubuntu1; it is a regression from 1:2.7.11-1ubuntu2 in 11.04.

Tags: patch
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Steve Magoun (smagoun) wrote :
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tags: added: patch
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Alberto Milone (albertomilone) wrote :

I've tried Steve's patch and I can confirm that it solves the problem

Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)
Changed in pidgin (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: nobody → Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (mathieu-tl)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package pidgin - 1:2.10.0-0ubuntu2

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pidgin (1:2.10.0-0ubuntu2) oneiric; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/irc_disable_periodic_who.patch: work around spontaneous
    disconnects from IRC due to 'Max SendQ exceeded' errors caused by periodic
    /who checks. (LP: #856631)
 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden> Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:00:52 -0400

Changed in pidgin (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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Changed in pidgin:
status: Unknown → New
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Display Name (user340562791542-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

pidgin-bugs #14955 marked as duplicate of pidgin-bugs #14743

Changed in pidgin:
importance: Unknown → Undecided
importance: Undecided → Unknown
status: New → Unknown
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Changed in pidgin:
status: Unknown → New
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Display Name (user340562791542-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I think pidgin-bugs #14955 does not complain about the same thing, but the solution is the same (disable periodic who).

Changed in pidgin:
status: New → Unknown
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Changed in pidgin:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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