login into Yahoo Japan fails

[Rolf Leggewie]

Binary package hint: pidgin

Login into the chat service of Yahoo Japan fails. I triple checked account and password, but it just won't let me in. The error is rather obtuse ("Unknown error number 1. Logging into the Yahoo! website may fix this.") Unfortunately, logging into the website does not help.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jun 25 20:48:03 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
Package: pidgin 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
 LANG=de_DE.utf8
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Now, I get "Your account is locked, please log in to the Yahoo! website. http://login.yahoo.com/config/login"

Looks to me as if the US servers are being used for authentication despite the account being clearly marked as a Yahoo Japan account.

[Kevin (kevin64-deactivatedaccount)]

You should use 2.4.3 of pidgin of Ubuntu 8.04 backports:

version 2.4.3 (07/01/2008):
 libpurple:
 * Yahoo! Japan now uses UTF-8, matching the behavior of official clients
   and restoring compatibility with the web messenger (Yusuke Odate)

http://www.pidgin.im/ChangeLog

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

I am using that version by now, of course. But how do you expect a change in encoding help with the wrong server being addressed? I wouldn't (and of course it doesn't, mentioning this just to make sure nobody indeed asks this)

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

This works in the latest hardy version now, yay.