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M_UNKNOWN error is needlessly ambiguous when joining a remote room if your federation is broken (SYN-310) #1296

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matrixbot opened this issue Mar 13, 2015 · 2 comments
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M_UNKNOWN error is needlessly ambiguous when joining a remote room if your federation is broken (SYN-310) #1296

matrixbot opened this issue Mar 13, 2015 · 2 comments
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A-Federated-Join joins over federation generally suck O-Uncommon Most users are unlikely to come across this or unexpected workflow S-Minor Blocks non-critical functionality, workarounds exist. T-Defect Bugs, crashes, hangs, security vulnerabilities, or other reported issues.

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If you try to federate up and join a remote room but your server is not contactable (or has the wrong signing key), you get an ambiguous M_UNKNOWN error. This is a common failure mode - we should say clearly what actually the problem is and help guide the admin into fixing it.

(Imported from https://matrix.org/jira/browse/SYN-310)

(Reported by @ara4n)
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@matrixbot matrixbot added z-p2 (Deprecated Label) z-bug (Deprecated Label) labels Nov 7, 2016
@matrixbot matrixbot changed the title M_UNKNOWN error is needlessly ambiguous when joining a remote room if your federation is broken (SYN-310) M_UNKNOWN error is needlessly ambiguous when joining a remote room if your federation is broken (https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/1296) Nov 7, 2016
@matrixbot matrixbot changed the title M_UNKNOWN error is needlessly ambiguous when joining a remote room if your federation is broken (https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/1296) M_UNKNOWN error is needlessly ambiguous when joining a remote room if your federation is broken (SYN-310) Nov 7, 2016
@richvdh richvdh added the A-Federated-Join joins over federation generally suck label Aug 2, 2021
@reivilibre reivilibre added S-Minor Blocks non-critical functionality, workarounds exist. T-Defect Bugs, crashes, hangs, security vulnerabilities, or other reported issues. and removed z-bug (Deprecated Label) labels Aug 3, 2021
@DMRobertson DMRobertson added O-Uncommon Most users are unlikely to come across this or unexpected workflow and removed z-p2 (Deprecated Label) labels Sep 6, 2022
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richvdh commented Oct 5, 2022

duplicate #7298. Or possibly #4858.

@richvdh richvdh closed this as completed Oct 5, 2022
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