Ubuntu
pidgin package

after signing in in pidgin chat, it does not connect but appears as "INVISIBLE/AVAILABLE CONNECTING"

Bug #389783 reported by rytekirant on 2009-06-20

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #389322: Yahoo server authentication changed: Pidgin =<2.5.6 will not connect to Yahoo! servers.. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	pidgin (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: pidgin

after signing in in pidgin chat, it appears "invisible/available CONNECTING" and never connects/registers in yahoo chat.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jun 20 04:50:26 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
Package: pidgin 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-23-generic i686

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rytekirant (rytekirant) wrote on 2009-06-20:

Dependencies.txt Edit (3.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (33.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (701 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Nick Holloway (nwholloway) wrote on 2009-06-20:

The Pidgin support page (http://www.pidgin.im/support/) has a link to "Pidgin cannot connect to Yahoo!" (http://www.celticwolf.com/useful-information/faqs/26-pidgin-yahoo).

Yahoo! appears to be upgrading their servers to a new version of their software. This new version requires a new authentication method. The latest version of Pidgin, 2.5.6, does not support this new authentication method. The next version, 2.6.0, will, but it has not yet been released.