YIM & MSN issues.

[Maki]

Binary package hint: pidgin

The YIM client keeps disabling itself with a connection error 0 and telling me to log into the Yahoo website. I've done that a number of times now but the problem persists.

MSN fails to work. It does not send my messages to others on my list, I don't receive messages sent to me, "The message could not be sent because a connection error occured" is the most frequent message I receive. Or something along those lines. I've ended up simply disabling MSN.

The only program that does work in a somewhat stable manner is AIM.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Sep 22 02:21:11 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: pidgin 1:2.5.0-0ubuntu2~hardy1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic x86_64

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey)]

I don't know about the MSN issue, but I too get the "Unknown error number 0. Logging into the Yahoo! website may fix this."

[Aaron Haviland (aaron-haviland)]

This Yahoo bug is known upstream, and according to the upstream bug report, the fix is fixed in their source, to be released in 2.5.2.

I have not investigated further, but the specific revision is available at:

http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/092bbcea7b768d21baff3362314e784b26b1ced7

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thanks Aaron, the patch from the upstream bug in indeed in 2.5.2, and in Intrepid, so I'm closing this bug as fixed. Please feel free to re-open it if you are still experiencing the issue with 2.5.2