Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 27093
New xchat connects to all servers when using old config
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:59 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-24smp alpha; Nav) xchat 1.6.3 tries to connect to all the servers on the server list when using a 1.4.2 config file. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rm -rf ~/.xchat (backup first if desired) 2. Install xchat-1.4.2-6 from 7.0 3. Run xchat 4. Use 'Settings -> Save settings now' menu item. 5. Install xchat-1.6.3-1 6. Run xchat Actual Results: Connections to over 100 servers. Expected Results: No server connections. The serverlist.conf file saved by xchat 1.4.2 has only one 'autoconnect = 1' server, the rest being 'autoconnect = 0'. A quick fix would seem to be to make sure xchat 1.6.3 is properly interpreting the boolean value at the end of the line. If one wanted to make the upgrade work 100% properly (i.e. no autoconnect to irc.xchat.org either) then the autoconnect flag should be ignored unless it is set by a 1.6.3 user (perhaps by only autoconnecting to 'autoconnect = MAGICVALUE' servers?).
We (Red Hat) should really try to resolve this before next release.
Was a failure to initialize the variable indicating whether to autoconnect, which led to it containing a random value that was occasionally true instead of false. Fixed.