Hi,

> OK, here's a weird one.  For the longest time, gaim on Nevada
> worked fine for me.  Then, sometime around build 28, it stopped
> working, and it couldn't find any plugins (so the Protocol field
> on the account dialogue was blank)--I think this concided with
> the switch from version 0.9x to 1.x.  I shrugged it off as a
> temporary bug.
> 
> I posted about it here (or possibly comp.unix.solaris) a bit later,
> but people said that they had no problem with it.
> 
> Fast forward to today, after I installed Nevada build 41.  I try again;
> still busted.  Then I try using my wife's login--lo and behold, it worked!
> 
> Using truss, I noticed my wife's gaim process was running /usr/bin/gaim,
> whereas mine was running /bin/gaim.  On hunch, I tried running /usr/bin/gaim
> rather than relying on exec() to expand my $PATH get to /bin/gaim first,
> and it worked!
> 
> So the question is: WTF is going on, and is this a bug?
> 

It is known bug. And reported to upstream:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1425603&group_id=235&atid=100235

Best regards,

Milan Jurik

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