Cable stuck on Joining channel..

[Naatan]

When connecting to a server (eg. irc.freenode.com/cableirc) the connection completes properly and I am joined into the specified channel as is evident by monitoring the channel from another irc channel. But in Cable itself I am just stuck on "Joining channel #cableirc", nothing happens.

Stdout has the following information:

[_LOG_LEVEL_INFO 13:14:40.201070] Application.vala:77: Cable version: 0.1
[_LOG_LEVEL_INFO 13:14:40.201132] Application.vala:79: Kernel version: 3.8.0-28-generic
[_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG 13:14:40.207499] Settings.vala:158: Loading settings from schema 'org.pantheon.cable'
[_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG 13:14:41.169300] Irc.vala:38: Successfully connected to Sushi dbus session.
[_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG 13:14:41.276933] [Gtk] Connecting to session manager
[_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG 13:14:41.305151] Server.vala:328: + IRC SERVER irc.freenode.net (from_name)
[_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG 13:14:41.306087] Server.vala:328: + IRC SERVER irc.freenode.net (from_name)
[_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG 13:14:41.307100] Server.vala:328: + IRC SERVER irc.mozilla.org (from_name)
[_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG 13:14:41.308034] Server.vala:328: + IRC SERVER irc.freenode.net (from_name)
[_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG 13:14:41.308937] Server.vala:328: + IRC SERVER irc.freenode.net (from_name)
[_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG 13:14:41.309903] Server.vala:328: + IRC SERVER irc.mozilla.org (from_name)
[_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG 13:14:41.310906] Server.vala:328: + IRC SERVER irc.freenode.net (from_name)
[_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG 13:14:41.311892] Server.vala:328: + IRC SERVER irc.freenode.net (from_name)
[_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG 13:14:41.312832] Server.vala:328: + IRC SERVER irc.freenode.net (from_name)
[_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG 13:14:41.313340] Server.vala:16: + CONTROLLER SERVER irc.freenode.net
[_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG 13:14:41.316497] Server.vala:52: + VIEW SERVER Freenode - nathanriabc123
[_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG 13:14:41.317099] Channel.vala:10: + CONTROLLER CHANNEL #cableirc
[_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG 13:14:41.317163] Channel.vala:60: + VIEW CHANNEL #cableirc
[_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG 13:14:41.322011] Channel.vala:122: + IRC CHANNEL #cableirc
[_LOG_LEVEL_FATAL 13:14:41.331444] cable_widgets_channel_real_has_user: assertion `nick != NULL' failed
[_LOG_LEVEL_FATAL 13:14:41.331477] Cable will not function properly.

I've tried various nickname variations (both unique and ones that were already taken) to no avail.

I've tried both the version available on the PPA as well as building Cable from trunk.

[Amir Masoud (amirmasoudabdol)]

After few tries I have found that the reason is that the Cable couldn't register the given name for the use in the channel requested. But it didn't shows any warning or error for that. It also doesn't auto generate names like XChat. Simple prompt will fix this issue, I guess.

[Eduard Gotwig (gotwig)]

I am sure this is a duplicate bug report.. somehow.

We are going to work on InfoBars in the future, thanks for the bug report.

[Naatan (naatan)]

I don't see how my name could be an issue, as the same name worked on other IRC clients. Also it couldn't have been that it was in use as I used the most obscure variations for testing.

So might be a bit pre-emptive to mark this as "duplicate".

[Julien Spautz (julien-spautz)]

Confirming because it affects multiple users.