Bug 840408 – Does not connect to IRC if nick already in use

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Bug 840408 - Does not connect to IRC if nick already in use

Summary:	Does not connect to IRC if nick already in use

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	empathy (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.0
Hardware:	Unspecified Linux

Priority	unspecified Severity unspecified
Target Milestone:	rc
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Assigned To:	Debarshi Ray
QA Contact:	Desktop QE
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Reported:	2012-07-16 05:40 EDT by Tomas Jamrisko
Modified:	2014-04-22 08:56 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2014-04-22 08:56:56 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
GNOME Bugzilla	680024	None	None	None	2012-07-16 11:16:09 EDT
FreeDesktop.org	14751	None	None	None	2012-10-29 12:36:48 EDT

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Description Tomas Jamrisko 2012-07-16 05:40:48 EDT

Description of problem:

Empathy does not connect to irc if nick is already in use, which is understandable and not a bug per se.

The problem lies in empathys unability to reconnect to IRC server after unexpected loss of connection (e.g. unplugged cable). It is fairly reasonable to assume that connection should be restored asap, albeit at the expense of changing nick (adding underscore, number, whatever -- as most other clients do)  

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
empathy-3.4.2.1-1.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Connect to IRC server
2. Disable your networking
3. Enable networking

Comment 4 Debarshi Ray 2013-11-01 10:45:43 EDT

You are not supposed to use empathy for IRC in RHEL7, which is why we do not ship telepathy-idle. Please use xchat instead.

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