Can't see aMSN user's avatar

[the98]

Emesene version: 2.11.4
OS: Debian Sid
Emesene installed from Debian Sid's repository (so version actually is 2.11.4+dfsg-1)

What happens is that when chatting to a contact that's using aMSN (Windows version) I can't see his/her avatar. It never loads. This does not happen on emesene 1.6.3 - "Uberlândia" on a Debian Squeeze installation. In that case, avatar loads normally.

Emesene instalado en un Debian Sid a través del repositorio de Debian Sid.

Ocurre que al chatear con un contacto que usa la versión de Windows de aMSN, su avatar nunca carga. Esto no pasa en emsene 1.6.3 - "Uberlândia", donde la imagen se visualiza con normalidad en una instalación de Debian Squeeze.

If your coming from 1.6.3, try going to PREFERENCES -> LIVE MESSENGER and following the instructions there. Make sure to restart emesene2 after doing that.

[the98]

Hi. I'm not coming from 1.6.3. It's installed on another machine and I haven't imported config files or anything.

Are you using the same account as you used with 1.6.3? If you are then your profile (on the msn server) is broken.
The instructions in PREFERENCES -> LIVE MESSENGER will fix your profile if it is broken, which might solve your problem.

[the98]

I use the same account. So every time I use emesene 1.6.3 and then use emesene 2 I have to "fix" my broken profile?

How do I know if my profile is actually broken?

And last but not least, why does this happen with contacts using aMSN?

Thanks!

Unfortunately yes, emesene 1.6.3 breaks your profiles every time you login using it. A broken profile will cause problems with your avatar, display name, and personal message. This may not be a broken profile issue, but a lot of the issues reported are so its always best to check.

You know you have a broken profile when you get 404 errors in the debug window or while running the terminal.
They will look something like this: http://pastebin.com/t3M5YhWB

Not sure. Could be a bug, it could be a broken profile, it could be aMSN. Developer will have to answer that.

[the98]

Ok, so I've fixed my profile (I was getting 404 errors in my Terminal). I restarted emesene. I was using an account with aMSN in my desktop computer and a different msn account with Emesene 2 on my laptop. I wasn't able to see the avatar of the account using aMSN.

I also noticed that whenever you fix your profile, all your config goes back to default and you have to configure Emesene 2 again :-S

I don't think it's aMSN issue. But I'm not a coder so I would know for sure!

[c10ud]

make sure you have python-papyon=>0.5.5

[the98]

Hi, I think that's not the problem. Sid's package python-papyon version is 0.5.5.

Maybe you should try the bug for yourselves using 2 different accounts. I think it's a minor bug which does not make the software unusable, and it might be aMSN's fault.

Kind regards.

[the98]

I've just notice that this also happens with user's using MSN (WLM or whatever it's called now).

This is the output I get when I clic on debug, maybe it helps figuring out the problem:

(23:24:38) papyon.transport:<<< JOI Contact'sMail@hotmail.com Agustin 2788999468:2550273072
(23:24:38) papylib.Events:Contact's client capabilities changed: <papyon.Contact id='8c86ca1f-16b4-4017-8b5e-3165dea39ce6' network='1' account='Contact'sMail@hotmail.com' memberships='FORWARD | ALLOW | REVERSE'>
(23:24:38) papyon.transport:>>> MSG 3 D 252

Content-Type: 'application/x-msnmsgrp2p'\r\n
MIME-Version: '1.0'\r\n
P2P-Src: 'MyMail@hotmail.com;{d36fcbbe-d101-4618-aeee-654f8201d207}'\r\n
P2P-Dest: 'Contact'sMail@hotmail.com;{ce880c6b-3040-4279-9222-b4d4e97ee578}'\r\n
[P2P message (942 bytes)]

(23:24:38) papyon.transport:<<< ACK 3
(23:24:39) papyon.transport:<<< MSG Contact'sMail@hotmail.com Agustin 251

P2P-Src: 'Contact'sMail@hotmail.com;{ce880c6b-3040-4279-9222-b4d4e97ee578}'\r\n
P2P-Dest: 'MyMail@hotmail.com;{d36fcbbe-d101-4618-aeee-654f8201d207}'\r\n
Content-Type: 'application/x-msnmsgrp2p'\r\n
MIME-Version: '1.0'\r\n
[P2P message (28 bytes)]

(23:24:39) papyon.msnp2p.transport.switchboard:<<< TLPv2 chunk 0xfccd4d61: blob 0, ACK 0x1b615f9a, RAK, SYN,
(23:24:39) papyon.msnp2p.transport.switchboard:>>> TLPv2 chunk 0x1b615f9a: blob 0, ACK 0xfccd4d61,
(23:24:39) papyon.transport:>>> MSG 4 D 251

Content-Type: 'application/x-msnmsgrp2p'\r\n
MIME-Version: '1.0'\r\n
P2P-Src: 'MyMail@hotmail.com;{d36fcbbe-d101-4618-aeee-654f8201d207}'\r\n
P2P-Dest: 'Contact'sMail@hotmail.com;{ce880c6b-3040-4279-9222-b4d4e97ee578}'\r\n
[P2P message (16 bytes)]

(23:24:39) papyon.transport:<<< MSG Contact'sMail@hotmail.com Agustin 252

P2P-Src: 'Contact'sMail@hotmail.com;{ce880c6b-3040-4279-9222-b4d4e97ee578}'\r\n
P2P-Dest: 'MyMail@hotmail.com;{d36fcbbe-d101-4618-aeee-654f8201d207}'\r\n
Content-Type: 'application/x-msnmsgrp2p'\r\n
MIME-Version: '1.0'\r\n
[P2P message (432 bytes)]

(23:24:39) papyon.msnp2p.transport.switchboard:<<< TLPv2 chunk 0xfccd4d61: blob 0, SLP Message
MSNSLP/1.0 200 OK\r\n
To: msnmsgr:MyMail@hotmail.com;{d36fcbbe-d101-4618-aeee-654f8201d207}\r\n
From: msnmsgr:Contact'sMail@hotmail.com;{ce880c6b-3040-4279-9222-b4d4e97ee578}\r\n
Via: MSNSLP/1.0/TLP ;branch={dea2c87a-ed57-41fa-a685-b060f036cf75}\r\n
CSeq: 1 \r\n
Call-ID: {eb536745-eece-4dca-8da6-0462f72c666c}\r\n
Max-Forwards: 0\r\n
Content-Type: application/x-msnmsgr-sessionreqbody\r\n
Content-Length: 25\r\n
\r\n
SessionID: 868144819\r\n
\r\n
\x00
(23:24:39) papyon.p2p:Keeping only session 868144819 in meta session
(23:24:39) papyon.transport:<<< MSG Contact'sMail@hotmail.com Agustin 251

P2P-Src: 'Contact'sMail@hotmail.com;{ce880c6b-3040-4279-9222-b4d4e97ee578}'\r\n
P2P-Dest: 'MyMail@hotmail.com;{d36fcbbe-d101-4618-aeee-654f8201d207}'\r\n
Content-Type: 'application/x-msnmsgrp2p'\r\n
MIME-Version: '1.0'\r\n
[P2P message (20 bytes)]

(23:24:39) papyon.msnp2p.transport.switchboard:<<< TLPv2 chunk 0xfccd4f09: blob 0, session 868144819, data 4 bytes papyon.transport:<<< MSG Contact'sMail@hotmail.com Agustin 252

P2P-Src: 'Contact'sMail@hotmail.com;{ce880c6b-3040-4279-9222-b4d4e97ee578}'\r\n
P2P-Dest: 'MyMail@hotmail.com;{d36fcbbe-d101-4618-aeee-654f8201d207}'\r\n
Content-Type: 'application/x-msnmsgrp2p'\r\n
MIME-Version: '1.0'\r\n
[P2P message (500 bytes)]

(23:24:39) papyon.msnp2p.transport.switchboard:<<< TLPv2 chunk 0xfccd4f15: blob 1, SLP Message
BYE MSNMSGR:MyMail@hotmail.com;{d36fcbbe-d101-4618-aeee-654f8201d207} MSNSLP/1.0\r\n
To: msnmsgr:MyMail@hotmail.com;{d36fcbbe-d101-4618-aeee-654f8201d207}\r\n
From: msnmsgr:Contact'sMail@hotmail.com;{ce880c6b-3040-4279-9222-b4d4e97ee578}\r\n
Via: MSNSLP/1.0/TLP ;branch={60A38374-9901-4B74-BDFF-CEB878CB27C7}\r\n
CSeq: 0 \r\n
Call-ID: {EB536745-EECE-4DCA-8DA6-0462F72C666C}\r\n
Max-Forwards: 0\r\n
Content-Type: application/x-msnmsgr-sessionclosebody\r\n
Content-Length: 25\r\n
\r\n
SessionID: 868144819\r\n
\r\n
\x00

[c10ud]

need more feedback on this from others, i don't have access to a wlm2011, as for amsn it works here, maybe it's some old version?

the trace looks good though.. try 2.11.5 and cleaning your config folder (rm -rf ~/.config/emesene2)

[Sbte]

Maybe this is the same issue I had when you committed dab73e5, because that still doesn't seem fixed.

[c10ud]

nope, now it checks for a new avatar everytime it adds a contact to the contact list, which means every login the whole contact list's avatars are rechecked

[the98]

I've updated to 2.11.5. Removed my config dir, but this has made the problem worse because now I can see even less avatars than before.

This is an example of the debug output I get:

(13:08:21) papyon.msnp2p.transport:Registering transport
(13:08:21) papyon.msnp2p.transport.switchboard:>>> TLPv1 chunk 0x6666f896: blob 2058957350, SLP Message
INVITE MSNMSGR:FriendsEMail@hotmail.com MSNSLP/1.0\r\n
To: msnmsgr:FriendsEMail@hotmail.com\r\n
From: msnmsgr:MyEMail@hotmail.com\r\n
Via: MSNSLP/1.0/TLP ;branch={a4238c1d-4801-4202-b3cd-15bf1aceb282}\r\n
CSeq: 0\r\n
Call-ID: {72ce4ba3-148d-4138-8543-4f465581e1cd}\r\n
Max-Forwards: 0\r\n
Content-Type: application/x-msnmsgr-sessionreqbody\r\n
Content-Length: 454\r\n
\r\n
SessionID: 202051966\r\n
SChannelState: 0\r\n
Capabilities-Flags: 1\r\n
EUF-GUID: {A4268EEC-FEC5-49E5-95C3-F126696BDBF6}\r\n
AppID: 12\r\n
Context: PG1zbm9iaiBDcmVhdG9yPSJyb2RyaWdvY2hfNUBob3RtYWlsLmNvbSIgU2l6ZT0iMjg3MCIgVHlwZT0iMyIgU0hBMUQ9InJxMVBoc2MrK05zd2QyTzFHMGVmZERtSEdhWT0iIFVybD0iIiBVcmwxPSJodHRwOi8vYmx1ZmlsZXMuc3RvcmFnZS5tc24uY29tL3kxbVNEZzh5aEJPU1dyNmJHaVBRVFBZSlZxeFZfRWpoOFl5bzduMm5abXFDUXk2akFjYTJGQ1BUc0ViRDlabnpwNlhhR3duR0tIOWhhZy1EYnpnWm1SdU9nIi8+\r\n
\r\n
\x00
(13:08:21) papyon.protocol.switchboard_manager:Requesting switchboard for participant(s) FriendsEMail@hotmail.com
(13:08:21) papyon.protocol.switchboard_manager:Requesting new switchboard

By the way, according to aMSN, the contact I've previously reported is running WLM 2009.

Regarding to aMSN, I can't see the avatar of that contact, even under ver 2.11.5. And another thing I've noticed is that the contact running aMSN I can't see my avatar either (running emesene 2). This doesn't happen when running emesene 1 with the other account and running emesene 2 with my account (they can both see each other avatars), so maybe it's an aMSN issue.

Hope this helps.

[Sbte]

@the98 That last problem with other users not seeing your avatar indicates a broken profile. Follow the instructions under Preferences->Live messenger and don't use emesene 1 ever again ;)

[the98]

Done that a long time ago. No improvement...