[jadmin] gaim clients crashing my jabber server

[Hakan Koseoglu]

Hi all,

I have an internal jabber server with GAIM used exclusively as clients.
I use Ubuntu server 6.06 which was upgraded from the previous version.

Since the upgrade, every time someone logges out, the jabber server
just stops responding, forces everyone to log-out and won't respond
until I restart the server.
The installed versions are (dpkg -l|grep jabber output):

ii  jabber                                 1.4.3-3ubuntu1
 Daemon for the jabber.org Open Source Instan
ii  jabber-aim                             20040131b-2
 Provides AIM messenger transport for Jabber
ii  jabber-common                          0.4
 Jabber server and transport (common files)
ii  jabber-dev                             1.4.3-3ubuntu1
 Daemon for the jabber.org Open Source Instan
ii  jabber-irc                             0.1cvs20050420-3
 IRC transport for jabber
ii  jabber-jit                             1.1.6-9build2
 Jabber ICQ Transport
ii  jabber-jud                             0.5-3
 Provides User Directory support for the Jabb
ii  jabber-msn                             1.2.1-1.3cvs4-1
 Provides the MSN transport for the Jabber IM
ii  jabber-muc                             0.6.0-2
 Multi User Chat module for the Jabber IM Ser
ii  jabber-yahoo                           2.3.2-1
 Provides Yahoo messenger transport for Jabbe
ii  webmin-jabber                          1.210a-2ubuntu1
 jabber server control module for webmin

and a typical log doesn't contain any  usable information. When I stop
and start the Jabber, it occassionaly complains that there's a running
instance but it always recovers after this:

root at chatter:/var/lib/jabber/chatter# /etc/init.d/jabber stop
Stopping jabberd: jabberd.
root at chatter:/var/lib/jabber/chatter# /etc/init.d/jabber start
Starting jabberd: 20060726T15:28:49: [notice] (-internal): initializing server
20060726T15:28:49: [alert] (-internal): io_select unable to listen on
5269 [(null)]: jabberd already running or invalid interface?
jabberd.
root at chatter:/var/lib/jabber/chatter# ps -ef|grep jabber
root     25156 25015  0 16:04 pts/0    00:00:00 tail -F
/var/log/jabber/error.log
root     25157 25015  0 16:04 pts/0    00:00:00 tail -F
/var/log/jabber/record.log
jabber   25231     1  0 16:09 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/jabberd
jabber   25233 25231  0 16:09 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/jabberd
jabber   25291     1  0 16:11 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/jabberd
jabber   25293 25291  0 16:11 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/jabberd
jabber   25459     1  0 16:21 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/jabberd
jabber   25461 25459  0 16:21 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/jabberd
jabber   25501     1  0 16:28 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/jabberd
jabber   25503 25501  0 16:28 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/jabberd
root     25514 25015  0 16:28 pts/0    00:00:00 grep jabber
root at chatter:/var/lib/jabber/chatter# 20060726T15:28:58
m1fcj-altair4 at chatter login ok 192.168.161.142 Gaim
20060726T15:28:58 m1fcj at chatter login ok 192.168.161.142 chatter

Here's the barrage of questions:
Is this related to my settings? How can I increase the amount of
logging  so that I can trace the issue? I am using openSuSE 10  +
gaim-1.5.0-3 from SuSE but other people are using various Windows
versions.

To be fair, this might be completely my fault, before the upgrade
everything was working just fine. If everything else fails, I'm going
to reinstall the server with the previous version of Ubuntu.

I hope someone can help. :)
-- 
Hakan (m1fcj)