#34 ickle: hangs if internet connection down for a long time

[Anonymous]

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Debian Maintainer: Leo "Costela" Antunes
<costelaaa@ig.com.br>

When I'm online, and then my internet connection is
down for some longer time (about 30 minutes, I haven't
measured it, maybe it's 1 hour), Ickle just hangs,
pressing mouse on buttons doesnt have any efect. I just
have to do killall ickle then. Contacts added in this
session are then lost.

- -- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux tarnica 2.4.18 #4 Sat Dec 28 05:46:45 CET
2002 i586
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL

Versions of packages ickle depends on:
ii ickle-common 0.3.2-1
ii libc6 2.3.1-5
ii libglib1.2 1.2.10-6
ii libgtk1.2 1.2.10-11
ii libgtkmm1.2 1.2.10-1
ii libicq2000 0.3.2-1
ii libsigc++0 1.0.4-3
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-15
ii xlibs 4.2.1-4

[Barnaby Gray]

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ickle can hang on DNS lookups - since this is a blocking
call inside libc, otherwise all I/O is asynchronous, so this
shouldn't be happening. Can you confirm whether or not it is
during a name lookup?

If so, you could avoid this by adding a caching server
locally. ickle isn't really going to change to a
multithreaded application any point soon - it's much simpler
and the majority of the time works very well single-threaded.

Barnaby