Description of problem: prior to updates in the last week I was able to connect without issue, but since that time it seems to be inserting rubbish characters into the username when connecting to freenode (e.g. ~) constantly looping on the following with each different freenode server: * Looking up irc.freenode.net * Connecting to chat.freenode.net (82.96.64.4) port 8002... * Connected. Now logging in... * *** Looking up your hostname... * *** Checking Ident * *** Found your hostname * *** No Ident response * *** Your username is invalid. Please make sure that your username contains only alphanumeric characters. * Closing Link: <my ip address> (Invalid username [~_xxx]) [where xxx is my username] * Disconnected (Remote host closed socket). Cycling to next server in FreeNode... * Disconnected (). It reports "username" problems whenever I connect to any IRC server with xchat. Funnily enough, I can connect via konversation, and then re-connect xchat and it works (except it detects my username in use). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xchat - 2.8.8 Fedora 16 - 3.3.1-3 Kernel x86_64 How reproducible: easily Steps to Reproduce: 1. log into xchat 2. connect to freenode 3. watch the loop Actual results: constant loop stating username is not valid Expected results: connection to IRC server Additional info: I have tried removing my personal preferences and re-connecting to no avail..(e.g. deleted the .xchat2 folder in my profile). I also changed the character sets on the server network list in an attempt to rectify the issue. This worked prior to some updates occuring around the same time 3.3.1-3 kernel was released
Issue resolved by putting ident information into real name/username, caused by attempt to put username into real name/username.