Yahoo! Error message assumed to be an "authentication failed" event erroneously

[zacw]

A debug log from the forums:

16:17:48: (Libpurple: yahoo) 19 bytes to read, rxlen is 128
16:17:48: (Libpurple: yahoo) Yahoo Service: 0x54 Status: -1
16:17:48: (Libpurple: yahoo) Key: 1     Value: ericajoy
16:17:48: Connection Disconnected: gc=182e5df0 (Unknown error number 0. Logging into the Yahoo! website may fix this.)
16:17:48: -[AIAccount(Abstract) serverReportedInvalidPassword]: <ESPurpleYahooAccount:15d27530 1>:ericajoy
16:17:48: <ESPurpleYahooAccount:15d27530 1>:ericajoy accountConnectionReportDisconnect: Unknown error number 0. Logging into the Yahoo! website may fix this.
16:17:48: (Libpurple: yahoo) 69 bytes to read, rxlen is 89
16:17:48: (Libpurple: yahoo) Yahoo Service: 0x7d1 Status: -1
16:17:48: (Libpurple: yahoo) Key: 66     Value: 1014
16:17:48: (Libpurple: yahoo) Key: 16     Value: 42352,ericajoy,ericajoy,*.*.*.*,84,-1
16:17:48: (Libpurple: yahoo) Unhandled service 0x7d1
16:17:48: <ESPurpleYahooAccount:15d27530 1>:ericajoy: Telling the core we disconnected

We're taking the "Unknown error number 0. Logging into the Yahoo! website may fix this." to be an authentication error: in fact, libpurple is saying so in its disconnect reason (PURPLE_CONNECTION_ERROR_AUTHENTICATION_FAILED).

[zacw]

I'm taking over this ticket and deleting everything that was in it before. Sorry.

[zacw]

Adding some keywords so hopefully people don't dupe this one. Feel free to forward-dupe to this one the horribly-wrong reports of us forgetting Yahoo passwords.

[darmok]

So the correct behavior is that Adium should quietly reconnect to Yahoo?

I notice that the "regular" Yahoo client does not fall off Yahoo like this. Nor does it happen in Trillian on a peecee. As to the cause on Yahoo's side_{, I think they're having some network problems. Traces to scs.msg.yahoo.com are showing very high latencies and path changes. fwiw.}

[zacw]

 #p5223 /  #p7147

[boredzo]

Given the Pidgin tickets, it sounds like this is a libpurple problem, not an Adium problem.

[lees312]

I am having the same problem since I downloaded the newest version of Adium 1.3.1 I keep getting logged off and asked for my password on yahoo. I am not having this problem when I use the regular Yahoo so I believe it is an adium problem. I am running a 10.4.11

[ralfy]

Same problem here, I was using 1.3.1 with 10.5.5. It disconnected me every few hours, and had to manually reconnect. Now I'm back to 1.2.7 until the problem is solved.

[docwho76]

Adium is being disconnected from Yahoo and refusing to reconnect because of libpurple. Libpurple pings the Y!IM servers too often and to Yahoo this looks like a DoS attack. The official Y!IM client I believe only pings the servers 4 times an hour. Any more then that and the Y!IM servers will ban your IP for some period of time.

[darmok]

The pidgin devs have fixed this in libpurple.  http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/7161

Dimmuxx send me a build of Adium 1.3.2 with a new libpurple a few hours ago. So far it's working great! No YIM drops at all, whereas 1.3.1 was dropping often.

[beej]

cc me

[evands]

(In [25203]) im.pidgin.pidgin 2.5.2mtn @ 741d3db56d7408 which fixes Yahoo disconnection problems (Fixes #11097)

[beej]

and 1.3.2b1 with this fix is now at  http://beta.adiumx.com/ :)

[ralfy]

I'm still having this problem with 1.3.2b1. Keeps disconnecting me and asking me for my password...

[EricaJoy]

Still having this problem in 1.3.2b1 as well. I'll try to grab data from the log next time it happens again.

[kitgar]

I am still having the problem also even with 1.3.2b1 installed. Yahoo is continuing to disconnect randomly and does not retain password when prompted to log in.....

[banslug]

Debug Log (Yahoo problem with v1.3.2b1)

[strredwolf]

Kopete from KDE on Linux also suffers from this problem.

[kitgar]

I reverted to 1.2.7 and am still having the disconnect issue. I have logged on to Yahoo using their app and so far the disconnects have not happened. Only when using Yahoo via Adium. I have read online that users of Pidgin and Trillium are having the same issues with Yahoo. Not sure if any of this is helpful........

[dseven]

FWIW, I was experiencing the problem on a daily basis with 1.3.1. I installed 1.3.2b1 4 days ago, and have not experienced the problem at all since then.

[lenzbd]

FWIW, I upgraded to 1.3.2 after the release today, and I just got another Yahoo disconnection. It looks like this problem isn't quite solved yet.

[ender3]

I can also verify that disconnect issue is still present after upgrading to 1.3.2.

[zacw]

The server has you temporarily blacklisted. Wait a few hours and it'll clear up.

[ender3]

I'm not sure if this is what you meant, but I re-connected just fine. But the "Yahoo disconnect, and Adium asks for password (pre-populated) so just hit OK" behavior is still present in 1.3.2

[kitgar]

UPDATE: I reverted to 1.2.7 on my G4 Powerbook and then updated to 1.3.2b, .......bypassing 1.3.1 completely..... and have had no further Yahoo disconnect issues. I have repeated this procedure with my dual-core iMac and have had the same result. Skipping the install of 1.3.1 seems to have eliminated the problem. Not sure why. I'll leave you all to figure out that one. :)

[zacw]

Removing 'libpurple' component.