Bug 31097

Summary:	Fail to set Alias on jabber.apinc.org
Product:	Telepathy	Reporter:	Guillaume Desmottes <guillaume.desmottes>
Component:	gabble	Assignee:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	lionel
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	gabble change alias log

Description Guillaume Desmottes 2010-10-25 02:44:29 UTC

Original bug report: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=632424

An user reported that it can't set its alias on jabber.apinc.org. I didn't see anything suspect in the log so that could be a gabble issue.
See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=173079 for the logs.

Server is often down so I haven't be able to test myself.
Works fine with Pidgin according to reporter.

Comment 1 Lionel Dricot 2010-12-01 07:09:47 UTC

Same on my ploum.net account.

Comment 2 Lionel Dricot 2010-12-01 07:14:51 UTC

Created attachment 40704 [details]
gabble change alias log

In this log, I've tried to change my jid (ploum at ploum.net) to "bépobépo".  (so it's easy to scan)

Comment 3 Will Thompson 2011-06-21 07:21:18 UTC

I believe that this issue was caused by a pair of bugs Jonny tracked down in March, one in Empathy and one in Gabble:

• Gabble didn't flag the relevant field in ContactInfo as being overwritten by the Alias;
• Empathy ignored that flag anyway, and even if it hadn't would both set Nickname and call SetContactInfo on the CM, despite only the nickname having changed; and it would call SetContactInfo with the old nickname.

So this led to the following sequence:

• Empathy sets Account.Nickname to "bépobépo";
• MC calls SetAliases({self_handle: "bépobépo"}) on Gabble (1);
• Empathy calls SetContactInfo( [..., ("NICKNAME", [], ["ploum@ploum.net"], ...] ) on Gabble (2);
• Gabble patches your vCard to change your NICKNAME to "bépobépo" in response to (1);
• Gabble then replaces your entire vCard with your old vCard, as Empathy told it to in (2).

The Gabble issue was fixed in 0.11.8; I don't remember which Empathy release fixed it, but it should be fixed in 3.0 at least. Soooo … I'm marking this as fixed. Please reopen if it's still an issue.

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