[SOLVED] pidgin not connecting to yahoo

[astro_sutradhar]

Hi,
Ever since installing mageia 4 pidgin is not connecting to yahoo. Error undermentioned
Error reading from login.yahoo.com: Input/output error
Kindly help in resolving this issue.

[doktor5000]

Quick search shows https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/16172
FWIW, yahoo login works fine here.

[astro_sutradhar]

thanks, I'd seen that post. Looks like there was only one option to recompile rpm from source. I'd done that and pidgin is working.The biggest question is, with so much technicalities invovled in linux will it ever be accepted as desktop os ? My next post will be on the same subject.

[doktor5000]

The biggest question is, with so much technicalities invovled in linux will it ever be accepted as desktop os ?

Question to whom, and accepted by whom? Question is, do you accept linux?
I'm fine with it, I like using and developing with it. It also works fine for my parents as normal users, once set up.

Apart from that, I've not had to recompile pidgin, and it connects fine here with my yahoo acccount.

[astro_sutradhar]

did pidgin connected out of box. Can you plz tell me wht is missed by me. I'd to change gnutls=no and comment the link to plugin in spec file.
Regarding acceptance :
Even I'm using linux from more than a decade on servers like centos etc. On that side there is no issue at all.
But on desktop (specially laptop)
I started up with mandriva on HP laptop hp 431.
mandriva failed to run properly at all. I'd been using mandriva since 2005 on desktop (even compiling openwrt was done on mandriva 2010). That was time i switched to mageia 2.
KDE froze frequently particulartly when using wine
softwares on wine were working pretty well i;e winbox (mikrotik remote admin sw), goravani 2.6 (astrology program).
I changed to mageia 3 as I needed more stability :

On mageia 3:
I'd do to a lot to make alt+tab working.
wine failed to run the goravani program . Wrong calculations of inner planets (mercury, venus )
Cannot use external mouse as soon as u use external mouse(usb). It will work for some time and then it will freeze.

On mageia 4
wine stopped running the program goravani. Froze and cursor rotating. (posted on wine-hq)
pidgin stopped connecting [solved]

This was just for info. Mageia is a good step forward where Mandriva left ( has it left )

[doktor5000]

did pidgin connected out of box. Can you plz tell me wht is missed by me. I'd to change gnutls=no and comment the link to plugin in spec file.

No clue, as there are no server settings inside pidgin for yahoo, only for filetransfers and pager.
I've configured it once when I still used yahoo messenger, that was 5 years ago or something like that.

You could try to get a debug log https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/TipsForBugReports or maybe it's your password?
Are there any special characters, like < > & % ?

Or maybe it's https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Protoc ... ewallorNAT

[astro_sutradhar]

some confusion in understanding i think. Pidgin worked well in mageia 2 and 3. Problem came up in mageia4 or u can say in pidgin 2.10.9.
As the problem is resolved by recompiling the source rpm with changes as per described on pidgin bugzilla (the link doktor posted in the first reply).

[sco]

It seems yahoo is being sloppy and gnuTLS is being picky.
A workaround (which worked for me) is to force the use of the Mozilla TLS library.

Try:
sudo chmod 000 /usr/lib64/purple-2/ssl-gnutls.so
or
sudo chmod 000 /usr/lib/purple-2/ssl-gnutls.so

Issue and workaround described here:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-bugs ... 03608.html