Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] retrying registration

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le jeudi 29 juin 2006 à 10:25 +0200, Hannes Ebner a écrit :
> Damien Sandras wrote:
> >>Sometimes registration to ekiga.net or diamondcard fails (it
> >>timeouts).  Restarting ekiga fixes the problem, so I guess it is a
> >>result of network congestion.  Is there a quick way to make Ekiga
> >>retry registering to either of these services without quitting &
> >>restarting?
> > 
> > It should automatically retry every x seconds... If it doesn't, then it
> > is a bug.
> 
> It does retry, but somehow it remembers the status of the last failed
> registration of an account.

It is impossible. The problem must be something else.

> 
> I ran into this problem yesterday, I had 3 accounts registered, one
> re-registration failed during the day with "forbidden". I opened the
> account window and re-registered manually (which worked). After another
> 3600 seconds it showed the same error ("forbidden") again, I
> re-registered manually again. I had to repeat this until I restarted
> Ekiga. It is very unlikely that the automatic registration fails with
> the same error all the time, whereas manual registration works.
> 

I would need a debug 4 output to make sure.

> A related question: if automatic re-registration fails, when does it
> retry next time? Is it after the configured "Registration timeout" in
> the accounts window?

Nope, it should be in the next 30 seconds.

> What about configurable (perhaps via gconf) retry-on-error values, to
> make Ekiga e.g. try the registration up to 10 times with 5 seconds in
> between if there is an error. If it still fails then, the user should be
> presented with an error window or at least a changed tray icon. It
> happened a couple of times that the registration failed and I didn't
> even know that people cannot call me anymore.
> 

I do not see any interest to have this in the prefs, however, I'm
interested in a -d 4 output to show me what happens when it fails.

> Best regards,
> Hannes
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