Bug 183307 - Kopete's auto-reconnect is unreliable
Summary: Kopete's auto-reconnect is unreliable
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 181883
Alias: None
Product: kopete
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kopete Developers
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: 187584 199827 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2009-02-05 15:30 UTC by Stephan Sokolow
Modified: 2009-09-06 03:36 UTC (History)
15 users (show)

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Description Stephan Sokolow 2009-02-05 15:30:55 UTC
Version:           0.70.0 (using 4.2.00 (KDE 4.2.0), Gentoo)
Compiler:          x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.25-gentoo-r7-20080501

Ever since I switched to Kopete, I've found myself returning to my computer (sometimes I was AFK, sometimes I was asleep) to find Kopete disconnected from some or all of my IM networks.

Asking friends reveals that I sometimes have been disconnected for nearly as long as I was away. (eg. 12 hours on nights when I slept for 15 after an all-nighter)

It's definitely better than crashing all the time (the reason I switched from Gaim back in pre-Pidgin days), but for my main means of communication with my friends, it's still suboptimal.

I think your auto-reconnect just gives up too easily. Perhaps, instead of giving up, it could use an exponential back-off algorithm the way TCP does, topping out at something like once per hour?
Comment 1 Maxim Grechkin 2009-03-01 18:12:35 UTC
Similar problem with talk.google.com and kopete from 4.2.0: if it loses the connection, it didn't bother to reconnect at all. This is critical bug for me.
Comment 2 Massimiliano Torromeo 2009-03-23 17:50:22 UTC
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***
Comment 3 Massimiliano Torromeo 2009-03-23 17:52:55 UTC
We use japper at work and I find myself disconnected every once in a while (because of network related operations), it would be really helpful if kopete kept trying to auto-reconnect.
A TCP-like algorithm as suggested in the Description would be perfect.
Comment 4 Vasyl Demin 2009-04-07 14:37:23 UTC
Same problem with KDE 4.2.2, Kopete 0.70.2 and account on jabber.org
Comment 5 Nuno Silva 2009-04-21 16:08:05 UTC
Already commented on bug 187584 (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=187584), which is the same as this one. Anyway, just to confirm that kopete doesn't reconnect after my (forced) daily ISP disconnect, too. There is about 2 or 3 minutes of interval until ppp comes up again and kopete usually doesn't bother to reconnect.

At least trying for 15 mins before giving up would be cool ;)

Thanks!
Comment 6 Tiago Furtado 2009-05-03 13:35:36 UTC
I would like to add that not only does kopete not reconnect when I lose a network connection (by disconnection or switching networks). It takes some time for it to realize that the connection has been dropped.

Little annoying aspect of this is that one has to click on offline status before re-selecting online because otherwise it will not connect.
Comment 7 Claus Appel 2009-05-08 18:39:21 UTC
I second this. 

Kopete also has trouble auto-connecting on startup. On my most recent installation Kopete consistently fails to auto-connect on startup (but usually connects fine when I tell it to).
Comment 8 Florian Staudacher 2009-05-26 13:29:21 UTC
It seems that especially the WLM protocol is unstable and likes to disconnect frequently, and here is where I would like to be reconnected. Currently I only get an empty contact list (I hide offline contacts) and I need to reconnect manually.

Please fix! This worked far better in KDE 3.5...
Comment 9 M G Berberich 2009-05-29 14:31:28 UTC
Kopete does no longer reconnect after wake-up from hibernate. This worked fine in KDE3-kopete. This should work again.
Comment 10 A. Spehr 2009-06-25 22:40:12 UTC
*** Bug 187584 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 Jack Black 2009-07-02 18:53:41 UTC
There is absolutely no reconnect for me on my jabber account. I'm using Kopete
Version 0.70.90 Under KDE 4.2.95 ((KDE 4.3 RC1)). I think thats a big problem.
Comment 12 FiNeX 2009-07-12 20:09:52 UTC
*** Bug 199827 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 13 Igor Ilkevich 2009-09-04 12:27:04 UTC
Same here. It does not reconnect most of the time. KDE 4.3.
Especially this is noticeable with gtalk account. icq is up longer but sometimes fails as well.
Giving up is not acceptable at all.
Comment 14 Matt Rogers 2009-09-06 03:36:30 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 181883 ***