On Thursday 06 December 2007 08:46:45 am Chuck wrote: > I am having an odd problem running pidgin 2.3 (compiled from source). > > After I log out and quit the application -- users on my buddy lists > (Im using it for my AIM and Yahoo messenger accounts) complain that it > constantly shows me toggling from online to offline every couple > seconds. However, on my linux box there are no pidgin process running, > no open sockets, nothing.... Very very odd problem. This problem > occurs on my laptop and my desktop. The problem spans my office > network and my home network. (ie when using my laptop at home it > exhibits this behavior as well) > > With the absence of any pidgin processes on my linux host, the only > thing I can think of is that the application did not gracefully close > its connection to the IM server, however these sockets timeout after 6 > minutes (at most) on most platforms, and my problem spans several > hours at times. > > I get no logs, no core files, nothing on the linux host that even > hints at a problem. From the perspective of my linux client, the > application appears to behave as advertised. (it does crash when I try > to make myself appear permanently offline to a single yahoo contact > but I can live w/o that) > > On a sidenote, any alternatives to pidgin for accessing Yahoo's > messenger service? (and AIM as well but I can live w/o aim) > > Thanks, > CC
Yes I use Pidgin 2.3: rpm -qa | grep pidgin pidgin-2.3.0-2.1 I do not have the problem you painted above. Have you tried installing from the Gnome BuildService? Ben -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
