224197 - NNTP error causes thunderbird to hang

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Simon Andrews]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.3 (20031013)

Occasionally I reveive an authentication error from our news server (I don't
think this is thunderbirds fault), which produces an error box saying:

NNTP error: You have no permission to talk - goodbye.

In previous versions of thunderbird I could dismiss this box, reconnect and
everything was OK.  Now the dialog box will not dismiss and thunderbird hangs
until I kill it from the task manager.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Read news
2.Wait for authentication error (usually occurs as soon as I start if it's going to)
3.Try to dismiss the error dialog box

Actual Results:  
The error dialog box will not dismiss.  The button seems to be active (appears
to depress when clicked), but stays visible and blocks access to the main window.

Expected Results:  
Allowed me to close the dialog box.

Comment 1

[Malte Rücker (mbr)]

*** Bug 224324 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Malte Rücker (mbr)]

OS -> All (see dup)

Comment 3

[Real Name]

I can confirm this bug. For example, if I connect to an NNTP server in
Thunderbird 0.3, enter the username "guest" and password "guest", and should
server reject the password, the program will lock up.
So to reproduce this bug, just typo your password.

Comment 4

[Malte Rücker (mbr)]

*** Bug 224950 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[earthasa]

Also applies to the NNTP error "Too many connections from realm ...." as I
described in # 224950. :)

Comment 6

[Malte Rücker (mbr)]

*** Bug 225192 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Malte Rücker (mbr)]

*** Bug 225473 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Todd]

Hi All,

   This error happens to me on News.CIS.DFN-1.DE, which required a user name 
and password.  If I goof one of them, Thunderbird will tell you that
"authentication failed" and then freeze up.

--Tony

Comment 9

[Malte Rücker (mbr)]

*** Bug 222496 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Scott MacGregor]

Attachment: the fix

If nsNNTPProtocol::NewsResponse gets a NULL string out from m_lineStreamBuffer
and we are not paused, waiting for more data, return an error. This breaks an
infinite loop where we keep coming back into NewsResponse over and over again
just read out an empty input string.

Comment 11

[Scott MacGregor]

Comment on attachment 135940 [details] [diff] [review]
the fix

this would be another good mozilla 1.6b bug. 

The fix is in the current 11-19 thunderbird builds and so far it is testing out
ok.

Comment 12

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Comment on attachment 135940 [details] [diff] [review]
the fix

a=asa (on behalf of drivers) for checkin to 1.6 beta.

Comment 13

[Scott MacGregor]

fixed.

Comment 14

[feyerle]

Hi there, since I do´nt really know, what to do, I was sending some of the
alerts created by Thunderbird´s Bug report.
The following message, which I never had sent, since this was my old account1
year ago, came back - and did not show up in SENT-box.
Please help: What is going on with my computer?
Yours Michael

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