[ ayttm-Bugs-2866692 ] Crash whenever I try to connect to msn

Bugs item #2866692, was opened at 2009-09-25 21:20
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Category: MSN
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Michalis (michalisvolos)
Assigned to: Siddhesh Poyarekar (siddheshp)
Summary: Crash whenever I try to connect to msn

Initial Comment:
I'm using ayttm 0.6.0 (the latest) which comes compiled and installed with the latest puppy 430.

Every time I try to connect to my msn account it crashes telling me that "connection to the server failed". Most of the time the system isn't responding after it and have to hard reset. With irc I don't have any problem.

I don't know if it is compiled using the option: --enable-posix-dlopen. I just want to fill this bug report in order to attach the crash log. If you need any more informations please ask for them.


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>Comment By: Siddhesh Poyarekar (siddheshp)
Date: 2009-10-06 23:31

Message:
Can you enable debugging for msn and then try logging in? You will find the
preference for that in Edit > Preferences > Services > MSN.

Once you check the "Enable debugging" check box and press Ok to save,
restart ayttm with the following command from console:

ayttm 2> ayttm.debug

and then try to connect to reproduce the crash. Once it crashes, open the
ayttm.debug file and search for your password. Replace the password with
junk or simply remove it and then attach the log file here. This will also
contain your buddy list information, so let me know if you're not
comfortable sharing that here. You could even email it to me using my
SF.net email (username at users.sourceforge.net)

As for module unloading bit, I'll look at that and let you know.

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Comment By: Michalis (michalisvolos)
Date: 2009-10-06 17:21

Message:
I tested 0.6.0-4 for 3 days and hadn't had any crash. Afterwards I compiled
also 0.6.0-6 which is the one I'm using now and with this version I had
some random crashes. One of those crashes was serious and locked the X
server, I had to hard reset the system. All the others, about 5 out of 30
starts and thous not every time I was trying to connect, happened when
trying to connect to msn. The program was connecting to the msn but during
the loading of the contacts the program was reporting that "connection to
the server is lost" and was receiving signal 11. So is something that has
to do with the connection for the first time, since every time I tried to
reconnect everything was perfect.

Something else that I noticed is that when choosing in the preferences to
unload a module next time the program starts has all the modules loaded
again. Seems like it doesn't remember in the preferences whether the user
has chosen not to use some modules. I even manually edited the prefs file
and next time wasn't working.

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Comment By: Michalis (michalisvolos)
Date: 2009-09-26 23:41

Message:
Ok I'll do it and will report back in monday or tuesday.

By the way now again is working fine and I have also many contacts online.
Magical fix...

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Comment By: Siddhesh Poyarekar (siddheshp)
Date: 2009-09-26 22:23

Message:
Hi Michalis,

I tried ayttm on puppy yesterday and found and fixed a couple of bugs.
This should include the friend request you keep getting as well as the
crash. But I'm not sure about the latter. Would it be possible for you to
check out the latest code from the repository, build and see if that works?
The bug should hit on the first few runs with msn.

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Comment By: Michalis (michalisvolos)
Date: 2009-09-26 17:29

Message:
Even more strange things happened today:

1. First attempt to connect to msn crashed my system as usually. Nothing
was responding so hard reset.

2. Tried to open ayttm but wasn't running either from the chat icon, from
the menu and from terminal. I searched why and the "prefs" file because of
the crash was "stale nfs". That happens sometimes because of the aufs
system. I used a method to delete it, ok that was puppys' problem related.

3. Tried to connect to msn, crashed with the usual bug report. Before the
crash again asked me about that person.

4. Tried again to connect to msn, asked me about that person, no crash and
connected perfectly!!!! Of course I wanted to dig it around and at some
point that I wanted to change group to couple contacts in the second
crashed with nothing responding except of the mouse pointer that was
moving. Hard reset of course.

5. Tried to connect to msn, asked me about that person (answer always no),
no crash and connected perfectly!!!!!!! I started to play around, I
connected also to irc, moved the rest of the contacts to the group I
wanted, unloaded modules that I don't need (jabber, aim, yahoo),
disconnected from everything and closed the program normally.

6,7,8,9 I don't know how many times I tested it, I opened the program and
worked fine no crash no nothing.


I'm totally confused I don't know what changed, I didn't changed anything,
didn't add any new program. The only thing that I've noticed today is that
from my contacts only one is online (busy actually) today, normally they're
more than 5. I don't know if that means something I'll see if is different
at monday.

Hope that helped and didn't confuse you more.

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Comment By: Michalis (michalisvolos)
Date: 2009-09-26 00:18

Message:
siddheshp, thanks for the fast response :)

Some more info, I hope that help:

For first time today it didn't crash my system after asking it to close.
One difference today that I observed is that it didn't asked me today if I
wanted to accept a guy (I think a bot actually) in my network. All the
other times after choosing not to accept there were appearing many tabs
simultaneously, more or less 20+, asking me whether I wanted to accept him
or not (the same as the first one) and then everything stopped responding
except of the mouse pointer.

Today it crashed with the message "connection to the server failed" left
it be opened till I finished what I wanted to do and at the end when I
wanted to close the pc I clicked the close button, and instead of crashing
as I was expecting it just closed as normal.

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Comment By: Siddhesh Poyarekar (siddheshp)
Date: 2009-09-25 21:43

Message:
Hi Michalis,

I have to admit I've known this issue since a few days now since pstef
(one of our devs) uses puppy linux -- I've not had the time to set up a
puppy linux box over the week. This is an odd issue because it's happening
only on puppy linux but I didn't know it's bad enough to cause a hard
system lockup. I'm loading it up today, so will try to find out what's
amiss.

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