Connection lost to contacts for few days
Hello,
I'm using briar on desktop and android. I recently had an issue on the desktop version, on debian 12. It's probably related to theses tickets : briar-desktop#319, briar-desktop#326 (closed) and briar-desktop#526 (closed).
My problem was that I couldn't send or receive messages for few days. To be more precise, when I was sending one a clock appeared, then a first check but the second check never appeared and the message was never received. And it worked the same on their device when someone tried to send me a message. Briar desktop told me it was connected to internet but no contact seemed online (even though I could see them online from my android device).
Usually, when I see that no one appears as online I restart the app and it works again, but this time it didn't. Neither when I restarted my computer or forced tor (for briar) to stop in task manager. Around 2 days after it worked again.
It may be linked to suspend/hibernation (when it works again after restart as well as when it doesn't) as my computer hibernates often and as it's when I wake my computer back that I'm used to seeing this error, but I'm not absolutely sure.
To try to solve this problem, I made few tests while briar was not working. First, I tried to create a mailbox for briar desktop on my android. Briar desktop and briar mailbox told it was working, but I still couldn't receive or send any message.
Then, I tried to invite my computer into a private group, but as the invitation goes by messages my computer never received the ask.
Then, I created a second account on my android device (with the app shelter and professional profile) and gave the contact to briar desktop by a link. And it worked. Not only my computer could add my new android profile but it could also send and receive messages with it, and they appeared as online for one another. However, the situation hadn't changed with the others contacts.
As I said earlier, it eventually worked again 2 days later when I started it again to test (I tested every 6 to 12h).
It's not a major problem for me currently, but I thought my tests could help if someone wants to solve it.
NB : I don't know how to access to logs, so if you want me to give you the logs from my computer, I will need help ^^'. Also it's the first time I report a bug and english isn't my native language, so if anything is unclear or not enough detailed, tell me.