my buddies are not showing up on my linux system and no one can send me yahoo IMs

[Tupelo Honey]

Binary package hint: pidgin

None of my buddies are showing up on my linux based Yahoo IM on my little netbook and yet they show up on my Windows Vista based OS laptop. I can neither send nor receive Yahoo! IMs at present even though my friends are saying I am showing up as online on their end and they send me messages but I never get them on my Ubuntu Linux system. 'Sup with that?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: lpia
Date: Mon Jun 22 15:48:18 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: pidgin 1:2.4.3-0ubuntu1~hardy1netbook5
PackageArchitecture: lpia
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 2.6.24-24-lpia i686
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package

[Damiano Dallatana (damidalla)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 389322, so it is being marked as such. This issue has been fixed upstream but not yet in Ubuntu Jaunty.
Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[tesspaccarangan (tesspac)]

Hi. Thank you for your reply.

I tried the solution where I need to edit the /etc/hosts file. Yes, I was able to connect to YM, but this also blocked GMail chat. Also, though I was not able to verify, it seemed that it took longer for me to connect to other Web sites. So I decided to revert back to the original file. I hope that there would be a solution wherein I can chat the usual way, to any IM server I wish to connect. Thank you!

--- On Tue, 6/23/09, Damiano Dallatana <email address hidden> wrote:

From: Damiano Dallatana <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 390856] Re: my buddies are not showing up on my linux system and no one can send me yahoo IMs
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Tuesday, 23 June, 2009, 10:16 PM

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 389322 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/389322

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 389322, so it is being marked as such. This issue has been fixed upstream but not yet in Ubuntu Jaunty.
Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 389322
   Yahoo server authentication changed: Pidgin =<2.5.6 will not connect to Yahoo! servers.

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my buddies are not showing up on my linux system and no one can send me yahoo IMs
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Status in “pidgin” source package in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
Binary package hint: pidgin

None of my buddies are showing up on my linux based Yahoo IM on my little netbook and yet they show up on my Windows Vista based OS laptop.  I can neither send nor receive Yahoo! IMs at present even though my friends are saying I am showing up as online on their end and they send me messages but I never get them on my Ubuntu Linux system. 'Sup with that?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: lpia
Date: Mon Jun 22 15:48:18 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: pidgin 1:2.4.3-0ubuntu1~hardy1netbook5
PackageArchitecture: lpia
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 2.6.24-24-lpia i686
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package