Bug#494940: libloudmouth1-0: clients constantly get kicked

[Dafydd Harries]

Ar 13/08/2008 am 11:55, ysgrifennodd Paul van Tilburg:
> Package: libloudmouth1-0
> Version: 1.4.1-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Clients that use LoudMouth constantly get kicked when used (at least)
> in combination with ejabberd.  While my client (Gossip) on a NATed machine
> seems to have no problems, all clients (Gossip, Empathy) running on a
> machine directly connected constantly get kicked after 30s to 5 minutes of
> inactivity.  Downgrading libloudmouth1-0 to version 1.4.0-1 seems to
> solve the problem. 
> 
> Since LM does not offer much debug feedback on disconnecting, I cannot
> provide more info than the following output:
> 
> SEND:
> -----------------------------------
>  
> -----------------------------------
> Freeing up IOChannel and file descriptor
> [...]
> 
> and then the client starts reconnecting.
> 
> Regards,
> Paul

This is very weird. The only change in 1.4.1 was to revert a change to use
TCP keepalives instead of whitespace keepalives, as TCP keepalives caused
problems with some NATs.

Perhaps you could check whether this happens with 1.4.0 and maybe the last 1.3
version (I forget the exact number).

-- 
Dafydd