Bug 500016 – net-im/pidgin-2.10.8[-r1] fails to connect to jabberds using old-style SSL

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Phil Stracchino (Unix Ronin) 2014-02-01 21:00:38 UTC]

Pidgin 2.10.8/2.10.8-r1 seems unable to connect properly to a legacy jabberd that requires old-style SSL on port 5223.  It successfully retrieves and authenticates the SSL certificate, but then simply spins forever failing to actually open the connection.  It connects without problems to a jabberd using the usual SSL on port 5222, and 2.10.7-r5 and earlier using the exact same account information connect successfully to a server with old-style SSL on 5223.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Reproducing the problem requires access to a jabber server running old-style SSL on 5223.  Assuming one is available, all you should need to do is set up an account with those parameters and try to connect to it first with 2.10.7-r5 to verify it works and establish the test account, then with 2.10.8 or 2.10.8-r1 to verify the bug.  I am unfortunately not able to offer access to the server in question for testing.



babylon5:root:~:6 # emerge --info
Portage 2.2.7 (default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop, gcc-4.8.2, glibc-2.17, 3.13.1-gentoo-babylon5 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.13.1-gentoo-babylon5-x86_64-AMD_Phenom-tm-_II_X6_1090T_Processor-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:    16412592 total,   7341640 free
KiB Swap:          0 total,         0 free
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 07:00:01 +0000
ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.2
distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled]
ccache version 3.1.9 [disabled]
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p45-r1
dev-java/java-config:     2.2.0
dev-lang/python:          2.7.5-r3, 3.2.5-r3, 3.3.3
dev-util/ccache:          3.1.9-r3
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.11.2
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.28
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2
sys-apps/openrc:          0.12.4
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.6-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.69
sys-devel/automake:       1.9.6-r3, 1.11.6, 1.12.6, 1.13.4
sys-devel/binutils:       2.23.2
sys-devel/gcc:            4.5.3-r2, 4.6.3, 4.7.3-r1, 4.8.2
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.7.3
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.2
sys-devel/make:           3.82-r4
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.9 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.17
Repositories: gentoo perl-experimental mysql mozilla x11 overlay-dev-alaric
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=amdfam10 -mfpmath=sse -pipe -mcx16 -mpopcnt"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/polkit-1/actions /var/bind /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=amdfam10 -mfpmath=sse -pipe -mcx16 -mpopcnt"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/gentoo                 ftp://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/pub/gentoo                 http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo                 http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo                 http://gentoo.osuosl.org                 http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo                 ftp://mirrors.rit.edu/gentoo                 http://mirrors.cs.wmich.edu/gentoo                 "
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j12"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/perl-experimental /var/lib/layman/mysql /var/lib/layman/mozilla /var/lib/layman/x11 /var/lib/alaric"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 bash-completion berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif ffmpeg firefox flac fltk fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk iconv id3tag imagemagick ipv6 java jpeg jpeg2k kde lcms ldap libnotify mad mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nsplugin ogg opengl openmp opus pam pango pcre pdf png policykit ppds qt3support qt4 readline sdl session speex spell sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg tcpd theora threads tiff tk tools truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb utils v4l v4l2 vorbis wxwidgets x264 xcb xml xpm xv xvid zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1 hda-intel" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nouveau v4l" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON


babylon5:root:~:12 # emerge -pqv =net-im/pidgin-2.10.8-r1
[ebuild     U ] net-im/pidgin-2.10.8-r1 [2.10.7-r5] USE="dbus gadu gnutls gstreamer gtk meanwhile ncurses nls perl prediction sasl silc spell tk xscreensaver (-aqua) -debug -doc -eds -groupwise -idn -mxit -networkmanager -python -tcl -zephyr -zeroconf" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7 -python3_2% -python3_3%" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3%* -python3_2%"

[Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2014-02-03 13:44:12 UTC]

+*pidgin-2.10.9-r1 (03 Feb 2014)
+*pidgin-2.10.9 (03 Feb 2014)
+
+  03 Feb 2014; Lars Wendler <[e-mail]> -pidgin-2.10.8.ebuild,
+  -pidgin-2.10.8-r1.ebuild, +pidgin-2.10.9.ebuild, +pidgin-2.10.9-r1.ebuild:
+  Version bump to fix login errors for some XMPP servers. Committed straight to
+  stable where 2.10.8{,-r1} were stable.
+

Does an update to pidgin-2.10.9{,-r1} fix the issue?

[Comment 2 Phil Stracchino (Unix Ronin) 2014-02-04 01:24:11 UTC]

(In reply to Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) from comment #1)
> +*pidgin-2.10.9-r1 (03 Feb 2014)
> +*pidgin-2.10.9 (03 Feb 2014)
> +
> +  03 Feb 2014; Lars Wendler <[e-mail]> -pidgin-2.10.8.ebuild,
> +  -pidgin-2.10.8-r1.ebuild, +pidgin-2.10.9.ebuild, +pidgin-2.10.9-r1.ebuild:
> +  Version bump to fix login errors for some XMPP servers. Committed
> straight to
> +  stable where 2.10.8{,-r1} were stable.
> +
> 
> Does an update to pidgin-2.10.9{,-r1} fix the issue?

I haven't seen 2.10.9 yet.  But I'm doing an eix-sync right this minute and will retry if it's there.

[Comment 3 Phil Stracchino (Unix Ronin) 2014-02-04 02:22:12 UTC]

(In reply to Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) from comment #1)
> +*pidgin-2.10.9-r1 (03 Feb 2014)
> +*pidgin-2.10.9 (03 Feb 2014)
> +
> +  03 Feb 2014; Lars Wendler <[e-mail]> -pidgin-2.10.8.ebuild,
> +  -pidgin-2.10.8-r1.ebuild, +pidgin-2.10.9.ebuild, +pidgin-2.10.9-r1.ebuild:
> +  Version bump to fix login errors for some XMPP servers. Committed
> straight to
> +  stable where 2.10.8{,-r1} were stable.
> +
> 
> Does an update to pidgin-2.10.9{,-r1} fix the issue?

Lars,
I confirm this problem fixed in 2.10.9-r1.  I did not back-test to 2.10.9.

[Comment 4 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2014-02-04 05:42:43 UTC]

Thanks for testing.