On 02/11/13 17:32, intrigeri wrote: > sajol...@pimienta.org wrote (02 Nov 2013 16:06:02 GMT) : >> Some users reported difficulties to connect to OFTC using Pidgin on >> Tails 0.21. I managed to reproduce that bug. If I start pidgin from the >> command line with the debug option, > > First, make sure you run: > > $ env GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID="" pidgin --debug > > ... else, you're testing something entirely different from what the > launcher in the panel does.
Indeed. Without that environment variable it always fails as described in the bug report. Maybe that person had a bad exit node one time, and actually made it a reproducible failure by trying to debug it through the command line. > I was able to successfully connect to OFTC this way on Tails 0.21. > >> Does that happen to others? > > It's been my experience for a while (possibly years) that *some* of > the OFTC servers block (some or all of) Tor exit nodes. Usually, > asking for a set of new Tor circuits works, generally the first time, > sometimes after a few tries. > > In short, I believe there's nothing specific to Tails in this, > and I don't think there's much we can do about it. I was about to propose adding a note to our Pidgin documentation about that. But in the end it's no big deal.
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