Re: Strange Message Dropping Problem

Anyone have any ideas on this, or anyone else seeing similar results?

Peter?

Thanks!

Jeff

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:59:05 -0500, Jeff Hedlund <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:44:47 -0500, Joel Ebel <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Yeah.  I just deleted that entire directory and let it re-create it.
> > You could probably just delete the main configuration file, but there
> > wasn't anything else in there I cared about, so I just deleted the whole
> > thing.
> 
> Ok, new information:  I was about to try your solution but I decided
> to try just restarting my Exodus before deleting the settings.
> 
> When it was restarted - I started receiving messages from people again.
> 
> That's strange because I had only opened Exodus this morning.  Then I
> remembered that I had a offline event waiting in queue this morning.
> 
> So I tried exiting Exodus again - and had a coworker send me a test
> message while offline.  Upon coming back online, I got the offline
> event.
> 
> I then had *another* coworker try to send me a message - it did not
> appear (though it did, as usual, show up in the debug XML).
> 
> Further testing:  I exited Exodus and restarted right away (no offline
> messages) and was again able to receive messages.  I then sent a chat
> (to the user I successfully received a test message from), closed the
> chat, had him send me another test message that I again did not
> receive.
> 
> So it appears that certain events are triggering something within
> Exodus to stop displaying messages.
> 
> Overview:
>    I close and reopen Exodus
>    UserA sends me message "test 1"  - successfully receive
>    I close Exodus
>    UserB sends me offline message "test 2"
>    I open Exodus
>    I have UserB's offline message in my Event window
>    UserA sends me message "test 3" - not shown by Exodus, but in debug window
>    I close and reopen Exodus
>    UserA sends me message "test 4" - successfully receive
>    I open chat window with UserA
>    UserA sends a chat and I close chat window with UserA
>    UserA sends me message "test 5" - not shown by Exodus, but in debug window
> 
> In my testing, this is only affecting messages not chats.
> 
> Any further ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>