139159 - Chatzilla lost connection to IRC server silently

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Other Applications :: ChatZilla, defect)

Description

[froloff]

Starting with Mozilla version 0.9.8 Chatzilla lost connection with IRC server
silently after several minutes (10-40, may depends of IRC traffic intencity). 
See Chatzilla output for "/STATUS" command after that
=====================================================================================
[STATUS]ChatZilla 0.8.6 [Mozilla rv:1.0rc1/20020418]
[STATUS]Default nickname, ``froloff'', username ``chatzilla'', and description 
`New Now Know How''.
[STATUS]irc.homelien.no: Not connected.
[STATUS]irc.homelien.no: Member of #os2russian (+nts)
<irc://irc.homelien.no/%23os2russian/>
[STATUS]irc.homelien.no/#os2russian: 49 users total, 8 operators, 0 voiced.
[STATUS]irc.homelien.no, #os2russian: Topic, ``HB to spear, RElf,
sNOa...מבאכהוע�! :)''
[END_STATUS]End of status.
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And can't reconnect to the server anymore.
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[INFO]Attempting to connect to ``irc.homelien.no''. Use /cancel to abort.
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Only closing chatzilla and starting again may help.

Comment 1

[Philip White]

I think that the IRC server is capable of disconnecting a client "improperly" 
without sending it some special packet that informs the client that they're 
being disconnected.

Can you reproduce this bug on any other server?  Maybe EFnet or Dalnet?

Comment 2

[froloff]

Of course, it may be reproduced every time, simply launching Chatzilla :)  on
any irc network.
Was checked also on irc.anduin.net (#netlabs) and Dalnet (different channels).
This behaviour start from version 0.9.8. Other OS/2 users also confirm this bug.
May be this bug is OS/2 specific (I havn't use other version of OS).

Comment 3

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Is there any way to narrow down when it started happening?

This could have been related to NSPR changes I guess, but I can't reproduce it 
since I have chatzilla trouble at IBM anyway.

Comment 4

[Samuel Sieb]

I think this may be a long-standing issue, that (on most platforms) rarely shows
up.  It would seem that on OS/2 it happens much more frequently.  Perhaps a race
condition?

Comment 5

[Alex Samorukov]

I think that this is an OS/2 specific trouble. I run mozilla for os/2 and for
win32. I connected them to local ircd (in my home lan). After ~30 minutez
chatzilla on OS/2 was disconnected ... Chatzilla on win32 had no problems...
Anyway, i think that mozilla need to autoreconnect irc server and notice user.

Comment 6

[froloff]

Please can You check, if mentioned NSPR changes have an influence on mail
subsystem. As I noticed, that autogetting messages doesn't work (stop working)
after some uptime of Mozilla messenger. But there was no such problem on Mozilla
0.9.7 build, I'd used before rc1.

Comment 7

[[e-mail]]

If this happens everytime in OS/2, even when idle, then you should do a packet
trace.

email me if you want to try that. I'll explain how.

Comment 8

[Robert Ginda]

reopen if still a problem