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["John S. Gruber" <JohnSGruber@xxxxxxxxx>]

** Also affects: telepathy-idle (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: telepathy-idle
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: lernid (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: lernid
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: lernid
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: lernid
     Assignee: (unassigned) => John S. Gruber (jsjgruber)

** Changed in: lernid (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => John S. Gruber (jsjgruber)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/850419

Title:
  Lernid  "Event Connection Interrupted" message due to nick/password
  issue

Status in Lernid:
  Confirmed
Status in A full-featured IRC connection manager for telepathy.:
  New
Status in “lernid” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “telepathy-idle” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Lernid suggests that the Internet connection be reestablished, but
  that's no help.

  The problem is that a registered nick can be locked at the server for
  a while after an attempt is made to use it without either using a
  password, or when supplying an incorrect one. Telepathy does not
  recognize this freenode nickserv behaviour and Lernid cannot
  distinguish between this situation and a network connection problem.

  The message from the server that telepathy-idle lacks from its parsing table is:
  :niven.freenode.net 437 * userid :Nick/channel is temporarily unavailable

  After no attempt is  to react to this for a while, this message is issued and the connection is closed by the server end:
  ERROR :Closing Link: adsl-sb-067-061.wcnet.org (Connection timed out)

  If this 437 error were reported as a nick error to the application
  program, Lernid (or other application program) could try logging on
  with a different nick.

  The nick is again usable after the server finishes the unavailability
  time and the student can then again logon using the nick as long as
  the correct password is issued.

  The problem only happens if the nick has "enforce" set on with
  nickserv, but this is common. Unfortunately only one faulty attempt to
  use a protected nick is enough to trigger this problem.

  Lernid may be able to circumvent this problem, at some cost, by always
  signing on to nick with a random component, and then trying to switch
  to the correct nick after the connection has been completed.

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