Re: [orca-list] OT: Is purple-facebook constantly reconnecting&not showing online FB contacts for everyone else?

From: "B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>
To: kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>, orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] OT: Is purple-facebook constantly reconnecting&not showing online FB contacts for everyone else?
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 12:10:55 -0500

Well, there is certainly something going on, and it's all the time for me now. 
I did have good results when I first installed the plug-in, but I doubt I used it more than 3 or 4 sessions 
on a couple of days. 
It's almost imposible to use the computer because of the constant announcement of old fb chat messages, and 
there have been times I could not even close 
all the tabs before they started reopening.
I have noticed irratic behavior in the past with the handling of SSL certs as you say, but I very rarely use 
pidgin for IRC except when I need to be on 
a voice chat server at the same time, i.e. using mangler, mumble or similar.
I can't think of anything much to try either. I have less than my usual number of active plug-ins on one 
instance of pidgin, and the other is mgy 
production box with a few more extras configured. 
I'll be trying to get in touch with the dev soon. 
I can't believe that everyone has much better connections all the time compared with me, and though many 
people do. 
If anyone gets an idea for something to try let me know. I think I'll try and clear out anything cached and 
reconnect the account to see what happens 
for starters.
  



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  kendell clark wrote:
Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 04:38:54AM -0500

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hi
I don't happen to use this plugin but this sounds like it might be a
pidgin problem rather than something with this particular plugin. I
say this because often when starting up pidgin, I often do not get the
"accept ssl certificate" dialog when connecting to kyle's irc server,
and it will connect just fine. Sometimes I do get the dialog, it's
very intermittent. Another related problem which is probably closely
related to what you're seeing is when logging into freenode. I am
actually registered there and autoregister with nicserv. Most of the
time this works fine but occasionally it won't for reasons unknown to
me and I have to do so manually. I'm guessing there might be a race
condition or the order of steps isn't exactly right. That is, pidgin
might be trying to log in to the server before it's successfully
connected to it and it doesn't retry.
Thanks
Kendell clark


kk wrote:


I am using it for quite some time now. The only problem I face is
distantly related to your's What happens in that on a slow internet
connection, I either never see the active friends, or if at all I
see them through Orca, Pidgin disconnects and I have to connect
again.  The way this plugin works is that as soon as Pidgin starts
it asks for fb password as if you are on a super fast Internet
connection. Then it takes it's own sweet time to connect or some
times does not connect at all. Happy hacking. Krishnakant.



On Friday 28 August 2015 12:51 PM, B. Henry wrote:

As the subject says this is OT, but as many people do depend on
pidgin for their chatting I hope folks will forgive my question. 
I installed the purple-facebook plug-in from the arch aur when
we first stasrted talking about it here, and a couple weeks later
put it on a Ubuntu box. I'd not used pidgin much if at all after
installing the first plug-in on arch, so things might have broken
at any time after that, but I did not notice till I tried it on
vinux5 nightly build based on ubuntu trusty. The plug-in is
useless the way its working for me. It reconnects every minute or
so, and online contacts never get shown, or if they do they go
away so fast that orca never lets me see them. Old chat tabs
reopen, and no matter how many times I close them keep reopening
with each reconnection. I saw nothing in the comments on the wiki
for this plug-in, so it must be working better for most people. 
What's going on with this. There have been several updates since
I installed this plug-in, and last I checked there were no issues
with the bitlbee plug-in that I thik is made by the same dev.


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References:
- [orca-list] OT: Is purple-facebook constantly reconnecting&not showing online FB contacts for everyone else?
  - From: B. Henry
- Re: [orca-list] OT: Is purple-facebook constantly reconnecting&not showing online FB contacts for everyone else?
  - From: kk
- Re: [orca-list] OT: Is purple-facebook constantly reconnecting&not showing online FB contacts for everyone else?
  - From: kendell clark

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