EventGhost

thx, i'm going to try it now

Hi,
the plugin worked for 15 hours. Now its offline. I will start eventghost again.

14:35:56 XMPPPlus.jabber.de:5222.Connected
14:35:59 [email protected]
14:36:00 [email protected]
.
..
06:01:37 XMPPPlus.jabber.de:5222.SocketError
06:01:37 [email protected]
06:01:37 XMPPPlus.jabber.de:5222.SocketError
06:01:37 [email protected]
06:01:38 XMPPPlus.jabber.de:5222.SocketError

Yours.
Arnd

Even if it is offline it should continue to keep on trying to reconnect. The socket error i believe is because it i unable to connect to the server.

I can see if maybe i can add the actual socket error to the event so maybe we can get more detail as to what is going on.

kgschlosser wrote: Mon May 21, 2018 7:55 am Even if it is offline it should continue to keep on trying to reconnect. The socket error i believe is because it i unable to connect to the server.

Honestly, I'm pretty sure it's not what it's happening, what I think is that the connection gets lost for some reason (internet problem or the server is having difficulties, etc.) then EG loses the connection and isn't able to reestablish the connection on its own. Why I think this ? because when it stops working, all I need to do is to close/launch EG and it works right away. So either the "keep try to reconnect" function is not working, or the the detection of a server failure is not properly detected, hence it's not even trying to reconnect.

kgschlosser wrote: Mon May 21, 2018 7:55 am I can see if maybe i can add the actual socket error to the event so maybe we can get more detail as to what is going on.

It wouldn't hurt, and will probably gives us some useful information.

The second try gave the same result:

07:59:03 XMPPPlus.jabber.de:5222.Connected
07:59:04 [email protected]
07:59:05 [email protected]
.
.
13:29:30 XMPPPlus.jabber.de:5222.SocketError
13:29:30 [email protected]
13:29:30 XMPPPlus.jabber.de:5222.SocketError
13:29:30 [email protected]
13:29:31 XMPPPlus.jabber.de:5222.SocketError

as I has stated before. i removed the timeout period on the reconnects. So it should keep on trying to connect it will try to reconnect on a socket error every 10 seconds. the only thing i am seeing are 2 attempts to reconnect.

Is it continuing to loop and you are not posting that log information?

and I will see what i can do about getting the actual socket error.

I postet all socket errors. There are no additional ones.

what are the entries with the dots? there is no date stamp for those.

Snowbird wrote: Mon May 21, 2018 8:15 am the the detection of a server failure is not properly detected, hence it's not even trying to reconnect.

It is detecting the disconnect. hence the multiple socket errors. those only occur when a reconnect attempt is made. This is why i do not understand as to how the problem is with EG. because if the socket bombs and a new connection is attempted the new connection is made on a new outgoing port to the server. for some reason something is stopping that from happening. firewall? router? IDK. I have been testing the snot out of this and it reconnects every time. I have an XMPP server set up that i have EG connect to. then i end the task for the server. EG gets the expected sockets errors. as soon as i start the service back up it connects and all is good.

I am not stating the problem does not exist. I am trying to figure out what the hell could be causing it. I am going to have to go and mess with the library that i am using to get better logging output. I have tried it without getting into that end of it because the author's code has a lot of voodoo in it.

kgschlosser wrote: Tue May 22, 2018 3:41 pm what are the entries with the dots? there is no date stamp for those.

I think the dots are simply there to simulate all other events/actions not related and not useful for this matter. There's no need to display them
He will confirm this (or not), that's only my guess

kgschlosser wrote: Tue May 22, 2018 3:48 pm

Snowbird wrote: Mon May 21, 2018 8:15 am the the detection of a server failure is not properly detected, hence it's not even trying to reconnect.

It is detecting the disconnect. hence the multiple socket errors. those only occur when a reconnect attempt is made. This is why i do not understand as to how the problem is with EG. because if the socket bombs and a new connection is attempted the new connection is made on a new outgoing port to the server. for some reason something is stopping that from happening. firewall? router? IDK. I have been testing the snot out of this and it reconnects every time. I have an XMPP server set up that i have EG connect to. then i end the task for the server. EG gets the expected sockets errors. as soon as i start the service back up it connects and all is good.

I am not stating the problem does not exist. I am trying to figure out what the hell could be causing it. I am going to have to go and mess with the library that i am using to get better logging output. I have tried it without getting into that end of it because the author's code has a lot of voodoo in it.

Kevin, I know you have tested all this thoroughly, and you need more clues to fix this, but I gave you all I have, I tried many things to understand why this is happening and couldn't understand either, it simply doesn't make sense... Why in the world it works 3 or 4 days in a row, and suddenly stops working ? sometimes it disconnects twice a day with no obvious reason, and sometimes it just works for days... There is one thing that i'm sure of, when the problem occurs, all I need to do is to shut down EG and run it again, and it connects immediately, so EG should be included in the equation ! Could it be some TCP connection that gets stuck on the server side, and when EG tries to reconnect, the server refuses it because it thinks it's already connected because there is still an ongoing connection between them ? maybe a socket that didn't close properly on one end, but as far as I know there is a mechanism for that to "free" the socket when the connection is gone (some sort of TimeOut). I don't know what's going on, but the problem exists.

That being said, since I installed your latest version of the plugin, I didn't have any problem, but that doesn't mean the problem is solved, it could take days to occur. On the other hand, HTPCanwender is still getting the disconnection issue, so... that makes me think that the problem is still there, even if for me all is fine for now.

HMMMMM that makes me think... Maybe... the library does not close the connection properly and what is happening is you do not get logged off from the Server. and because you are not logged off it is not allowing another connection. But one would think thins would not cause a socket error. it would be a authentication error.

I have a sneaky suspicion that when i close the client it doesn't get deleted and when we create a new one it simply uses the already made one the library has cached. I can clear the modules from python and reload it and then create the client again. see if possibly that clears it up.

also how sockets work is when a server listens on a port it is able to have multiple connections to that port. then a client initializes a connection to the server an outgoing port on the client machine is chosen at random. it is not supposed to try and use the same one. so even if the client port is stuck it shouldn't matter because it is going to randomly pick a new one. and since the server has the ability to handle multiple connections there shouldn't be an issue there either. The only case where this does not hold true is if for some reason on the client side the coder decided to use the same outgoing port over and over again. This is where i believe that caching thing might be the culprit.

I have nothing new to report. Even the third try stoped with the same messages.
Here are all messages XMPPplus made during the session.

21:48:10 ---> Willkommen beim EventGhost <---
21:48:13 Autostart

21:48:13 XMPPPlus.jabber.de:5222.Connected

21:48:17 [email protected]
21:48:17 [email protected]

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21:48:17 [email protected]

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14:08:51 XMPPPlus.jabber.de:5222.SocketError
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14:08:51 XMPPPlus.jabber.de:5222.SocketError
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14:08:51 XMPPPlus.jabber.de:5222.SocketError

Could you please insert an event that schows the version number of the plugin when it starts? I want to check if the installation routine worked correct and if i am using the newest version.