pidgin won't connect to gtalk on ubuntu 8.10

[Michael Kerwin]

Binary package hint: pidgin

Pidgin won't connect to gtalk where the account is a google account with your own domain on ubuntu 8.10. This used to work fine on ubuntu 8.04. It says it is available but comes back and asks for you to modify the account. I cannot add any buddies.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
Package: pidgin 1:2.5.2-0ubuntu1
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 2.6.27-7-server x86_64

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04? Thanks in advance.

[Michael Kerwin (michael-kerputer)]

An update fixed the bug and I am able to get it to work but I had to do
some funny things for it to work.

Thank you,

Michael

On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 17:18 +0000, Pedro Villavicencio wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
> any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue
> for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04?
> Thanks in advance.
>
> ** Changed in: pidgin (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

[Frane (kob4lt)]

When I change some options like "force old port 5223 (checked)" and connection server (talk.google.com) it works

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you try on jaunty and describe how to trigger the issue?

[Michael Kerwin (michael-kerputer)]

After some updates in 8.10 I got it to work. You have to set it up a
special way. It works the same way on Jaunty too. I have that now. Here
is what you have to do for google apps email accounts.

My email address is <email address hidden> so here is what I had to set.

username michael
domain kerputer.com
resource gmail.com
enter your password

Then on the advanced tab
choose require ssl
leave the connect port to the default 5222
enter talk.google.com in the connect server

then it works like a champ.

-----Original Message-----
From: Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden>
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Subject: [Bug 293935] Re: pidgin won't connect to gtalk on ubuntu 8.10
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:45:16 -0000
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could you try on jaunty and describe how to trigger the issue?

** Changed in: pidgin (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

[Monkey (monkey-libre)]

This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed with an update. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the revealed drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status. Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please submit any future bugs you may find.