[gutsy] MSN waiting for network connection... but does not connect

[Nicolò Chieffo]

pidgin 1:2.2.1-1ubuntu3

when the network is off pidgin shows a warning, near the status:
"waiting for network connection"
if I stay offline enough time (I think the time to disconnect for ping timeout) when I replug the cable the warning disappears, but gaim will not try to reconnect. It thinks that it is connected.
If I try to send message I get this error:

(23:01:52) Il messaggio potrebbe non essere stato inviato a causa di un timeout:
which means
(23:01:52) the message could not been sent because of a timeout error:

[Somebody (sauroninvincible)]

I'm also facing the same problem. I cannot connect when GAIM starts up on boot, as it thinks that it already is connected, with the same warning of "waiting for network connection". I have to disable and reenable my account before i can log in.

[Mark Doliner (thekingant)]

FYI this is a problem when interfacing with NetworkManager. I'm not sure where the bug lies... but Gaim is talking to NetworkManager and for some reason thinks that you're not connected to the Internet.

[Gadren (gadren)]

I found that the similar problem I was having came from Network Manager thinking I wasn't connected -- see, my wifi was set to "roaming," and when i specified the network i usually use, networkmanager didn't think i wasn't connected anymore, and pidgin works now.

[daws (dawsdesign)]

I have the same problem with pidgin on gusty. I am on a wired network.

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

I think that this problem is very annoying and can be fixed with a forced disconnection when network is not available.
Unfortunately I'm not really sure where I can find the function.
maybe it is in network.c and it is called
nm_callback_func(libnm_glib_ctx* ctx, gpointer user_data)

if I manage to understand how to force disconnection I might attach a patch

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

I made it! here's the patch to force the disconnection after network manager looses a connection.
it was really simple, you can look it yourself.
now when a cable is unplugged/a wireless signal is lost/a connection goes down, pidgin forces the disconnection of all accounts, and when network-manager regains a new connection, then pidgin automatically reconnects.

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

back to confirmed, since only a developer can put a status

[Rinaldus (pitersv)]

Nicolò Chieffo, how to use your script?

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

it's a patch that you can apply to the pidgin source

[Rinaldus (pitersv)]

What I need to do to apply it to source? Just to copy it or to launch this script?

[J.G. (j.gorski)]

This bug is related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/105234

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

it's not a very simple thing to do...

you have to download the pidgin source with the command:
apt-get source pidgin
you have to install everything to build pidgin with the command:
sudo apt-get build-dep pidgin
you have to go to pigdin source directory and apply the patch:
cd pidgin****
patch -p0 < /path/to/patch.diff
you have to edit the changelog of pidgin, to add some minor revision
numbers to the pidgin version:
gedit debian/changelog
and then build the package:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

no it is not related to it.

On 10/21/07, Igor Malner <email address hidden> wrote:
> This bug is related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source
> /network-manager/+bug/105234
>
> --
> [gutsy] MSN waiting for network connection... but does not connect
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/97591
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Display Name (user340562791542-deactivatedaccount)]

My problem is: when I start Pidgin on Feisty, it keeps 'waiting for connection' when actually I'm really connected to internet. I think I've removed Network Manager or so, I can't see its icon on tray, but if I'm sure it didn't see my dialed, unsupported-winmodem connection. Pidgin's team say NM sucks.

[Diegstroyer (diegstroyer)]

Same problem on Hardy Beta with Pidgin, the same thing with Mercury Messenger.

[rott (pablo-iliopetra)]

You can keep your Network Manager as is, just do the following:

1)determine your IP using ifconfig (ifconfig lists all active and inactive connections - so you choose the IP your active internet connection has)

2) go to pidgin->tools->preferences->network
uncheck the "Autodetect IP address" field and set the IP you just noted down in the Public IP.

That solved the problem for me (however, if you get a different IP address everytime you connect to the internet, u r still in a mess)

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

This seems to be fixed in pidgin 2.4.2

[Greg A (etulfetulf)]

This has been fixed upstream and the changes incorporated into Ubuntu some time ago.

[Greg A (etulfetulf)]

Sorry, that last comment was intended for a different bug. However it would appear that this has been fixed in the pidgin version inside Intrepid (8.10) anyway.