diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index a77e25c3..c2651db6 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -31,34 +31,7 @@ KeyError: ''
  a titlebar
 -audit log did not show confetty activity for starting console
 -read exclusive and full exclusive console access modes
--when an http session exists, confluent cpu usage on my vm idles at 2 %.
- profile exactly what is spinning and try to make it nicer
-- an ipmi console was once stuck in 'connecting' state, no idea how, this traceback might have occurred:
-Traceback (most recent call last):
-  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/eventlet/hubs/hub.py", line 346, in fire_timers
-    timer()
-  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/eventlet/hubs/timer.py", line 56, in __call__
-    cb(*args, **kw)
-  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/eventlet/semaphore.py", line 121, in _do_acquire
-    waiter.switch()
-  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/eventlet/greenthread.py", line 194, in main
-    result = function(*args, **kwargs)
-  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/confluent/consoleserver.py", line 177, in _connect_backend
-    self._console.connect(self.get_console_output)
-  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/confluent/plugins/hardwaremanagement/ipmi.py", line 143, in connect
-    iohandler=self.handle_data)
-  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pyghmi/ipmi/console.py", line 65, in __init__
-    session.Session.wait_for_rsp(0)
-  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pyghmi/ipmi/private/session.py", line 914, in wait_for_rsp
-    cls._route_ipmiresponse(sockaddr, data)
-  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pyghmi/ipmi/private/session.py", line 991, in _route_ipmiresponse
-    sockaddr=sockaddr)
-  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pyghmi/ipmi/private/session.py", line 1035, in _handle_ipmi_packet
-    self._handle_ipmi2_packet(data)
-  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pyghmi/ipmi/private/session.py", line 1063, in _handle_ipmi2_packet
-    self.k1, rawdata[4:-12], hashlib.sha1).digest()[:12]
-  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/hmac.py", line 133, in new
-    return HMAC(key, msg, digestmod)
-  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/hmac.py", line 68, in __init__
-    if len(key) > blocksize:
-TypeError: object of type 'NoneType' has no len()
+-remove the socket ignore code from pyghmi and repeat tests to understand
+ why python 2.7 with excessive select() would transpose typing so badly...
+ while the problem cannot be reproduced without that problem fixed, the
+ problem should only cause poor performance, not induce transpose of data...
diff --git a/confluent_common/confluent/tlvdata.py b/confluent_common/confluent/tlvdata.py
index e9898094..eaf212b3 100644
--- a/confluent_common/confluent/tlvdata.py
+++ b/confluent_common/confluent/tlvdata.py
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ def send(handle, data):
 
 def recv(handle):
     tl = handle.recv(4)
+    while len(tl) < 4:
+        tl += handle.recv(4 - len(tl))
     if len(tl) == 0:
         return None
     tl = struct.unpack("!I", tl)[0]