Commonly IRC clients provide nickname fallback when your selected nickname is already used by someone else, so you get connected without showing errors. tp-idle should retry the connection as long as it finds a free nickname: mynick mynick_ mynick__ mynick___ mynick1 .....
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 14751 ***
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