Contacts sometimes disappear for a few hours with quit message "Removed"

[spwhitton]

My contacts sometimes disappear like this:

12:49 -!- foo [bar@facebook] has quit [Removed]

While they are 'away', their messages appear in &bitlbee:

14:37 <@foo> spwhitton: blah blah

During this time I can converse with the contact using &bitlbee. Then a few hours later they come back and I can /msg them again. How can I debug this? Thanks.

[jgeboski]

Someone else has reported this, and I have yet to be able to recreate it.

[dequis]

@spwhitton how many friends do you have?

[spwhitton]

On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 05:21:12PM -0700, dx wrote:

@spwhitton how many friends do you have?

Well if you mean Facebook friends .. 640.

Sean Whitton

[dequis]

So maybe it's related to the contact list pagination being broken. It currently fails to fetch results after the first 500 contacts.

I guess that list isn't ordered so sometimes the contacts you want to have are in the first 500 and sometimes they are not.

As a crappy workaround, when you have the contacts you want to have, do this to avoid doing more syncs that may make you lose people:

account facebook set sync_interval 99999

That number is minutes, minimum 5, default 30.

If you don't have the contacts you want to have, maybe reconnect the account to roll again.

[dequis]

Actually, make that 9999 instead of 99999

(Just realized that 99999 * 60 * 1000 doesn't fit in 32 bits)

[dequis]

There's a patch in the development branch fixing this

[dequis]

That commit got merged to master some time ago, closing this.