Bug#530254: ekiga: Succesfully connected at sip-server side, but hang-up or status "failed" at my (client) side

[Eugen Dedu]

Alexey Mishustin wrote:
> Package: ekiga
> Version: 2.0.12-1+nmu1
> Severity: important
> 
> When working with the main russian sip-provider 'sipnet.ru', Lenny's 
> Ekiga client shows that the registration process is failed. 
> If timeout is set to default 3600, Ekiga writes at the status line 
> (translating from russian) "Registration failed: Forbidden", if 
> I increase default value, it writes "Registration failed: Timeout".
> Both messages appear almost instantly after the try to connect.
> Or, sometimes, instead of both these messages, Ekiga hangs up for 
> a very long time, not showing any registration status and even not 
> exiting - then only killing helps. An admin of sipnet.ru said me that
> some times he see the successfull registration of my account and even
> said my version of Ekiga to prove it. May be, those successful 
> registrations take place when my client hangs up.
> 
> I was successfully using Etch's Ekiga for few months with the same 
> sipnet.ru, the same account and the same options. I have rebooted to Etch
> today and - here we go - registrated succesfully and instantly again. So,
> in Lenny's version it's really broken the possibility to work with the 
> main russian sip-provider. Very, very pity. I tried to backport Etch's 
> version from Lenny sources, but with no success - it needed to remove 
> all GNOME and many other packages because of build-dep to the specific 
> version of libpt. Please, restore the sipnet.ru support. If you need
> some information of this provider, I can not promise to get it but I 
> can try. Or you can try to make account and login to it yourselves?

Start ekiga like this:
ekiga -d 4 2>out
and attach the 'out' file to this bug.  We will see what we can do.

-- 
Eugen