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pidgin package

Pidgin cant connect to Yahoo IM

Bug #418583 reported by Chuck Hamilton on 2009-08-25

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 3 people

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

Bug Description

Binary package hint: pidgin

Similar to 389322 except I am using Pidgin version 2.6.1. I cannot connect form my work network to Yahoo IM. All other account types work fine. Yahoo's own client works fine. The only way I've been able to connect to Yahoo IM using Pidgin is by setting up an ssh server at my home PC and proxying through it.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: pidgin 1:2.6.1-1ubuntu0~pidgin1.9.04
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package

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Chuck Hamilton (chuck-hamilton) wrote on 2009-08-25:

Dependencies.txt Edit (4.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (58.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (776 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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jhansonxi (jhansonxi) wrote on 2009-09-29:

This may be a duplicate of bug #389322. Yahoo! has been changing their protocol which broke compatibility with Pidgin. Ubuntu only provides security updates for a released version in a particular distribution release. A new version of Pidgin won't be provided until the next Ubuntu distribution release. Try using the new Pidgin version from the developers: http://www.pidgin.im/download/ubuntu/

If you have trouble getting the key (keyserver times out), click the "Does this bug affect you?" link at the top of the report for bug #435193 then select "Yes" and try again later.

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Chuck Hamilton (chuck-hamilton) wrote on 2009-09-29:

I've already done that (downloaded from pidgin's own repo). Pidgin still does not connect to Yahoo IM directly from my corporate network. I can make it work by connecting through an ssh server as a socks5 proxy which I've set up on my home PC. This seems to indicate that's it has something to do with my corporate network, however the real Yahoo client connects from the corporate network without the need for a proxy.