pidgin not connecting to msn messenger: Connection error from Notification server: Unable to connect

[Trialz_TT]

Binary package hint: pidgin

9.04
Pidgin 2.5.5
Expected to connect to MSN messenger
Got this instead: Connection error from Notification server: Unable to connect
Not able to use aMSN either.

Was able to use both aMSN and Pidgin in Intrepid Ibex...since upgrade....problems

Skype works...hope this help

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
Package: pidgin 1:2.5.5-1ubuntu8
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue seems rather a connection or server one since different client have the issue and not other users, changing to a question rather than a bug

[sebjob (sebjob10)]

works once out of 500 attempts with me, quite strange, even re-installed but no change... says reading error or unable to connect. Using Easypeasy and Pidgin 2.5.2

[Xavier (xavierborja305)]

my error says server can not support protocol

[GAYET Stéphan (stephan-gayet)]

the report of my pidging debug mode :

sgayet@dell-Backdoor:~$ pidgin -d
(17:31:26) prefs: Reading /home/sgayet/.purple/prefs.xml
(17:31:26) prefs: Finished reading /home/sgayet/.purple/prefs.xml
(17:31:26) prefs: purple_prefs_get_string: /pidgin/browsers/command not a string pref
(17:31:26) dbus: okkk
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/history.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/ticker.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/timestamp.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/musicmessaging.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/iconaway.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/xmppconsole.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/pidginrc.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/spellchk.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/gestures.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/gevolution.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/extplacement.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/cap.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/markerline.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/convcolors.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/gtkbuddynote.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/timestamp_format.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/notify.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/statenotify.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/ssl-nss.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/log_reader.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/psychic.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/libnovell.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/libmyspace.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/libsametime.so
(17:31:26) plugins: /usr/lib/purple-2/libsametime.so has a prefs_info, but is a prpl. This is no longer supported.
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/idle.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/libmsn.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/libyahoo.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/dbus-example.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/libbonjour.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/libzephyr.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/libgg.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/newline.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/offlinemsg.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/libirc.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/ssl.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/libxmpp.so
(17:31:26) util: Reading file xmpp-caps.xml from directory /home/sgayet/.purple
(17:31:26) util: File /home/sgayet/.purple/xmpp-caps.xml does not exist (this is not necessarily an error)
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/buddynote.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/libjabber.so
(17:31:26) plugins: /usr/lib/purple-2/libjabber.so is not usable because the 'purple_init_plugin' symbol could not be found. Does the plugin call the PURPLE_INIT_PLUGIN() macro?
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/ssl-gnutls.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/autoaccept.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/libaim.so
(17:31:26) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2...