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  • From: Paul Mahon <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • To: Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>
  • Cc: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Fwd: Re: problems with gaim 0.71
  • Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 01:04:24 -0500

I have another problem, I can connect to MSN, but it immediately
disconnect with an "Error reading from server"

On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 23:28, Hamish Greig wrote:
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> I think you will find the combination of the nss spell and selecting yes to
> nss as optional depends for gaim will fix this.(gaim has needed nss for ssl
> for the last 2 or 3 releases)
> we don't have gnutls but nss works.
> If it doesn't work would someone file a bug and CC me ?
> I was last to work on both nss and gaim spells, so I should be made aware
> of
> any real problems.
> the version of nss provided by mozilla/Firebird is broken (doesn't include
> the
> full headers) so gaim only enables nss if nss itself is installed.
> Eric if you want to forward this back to that list, and tell them they are
> welcome to use my nss spell.
> Hamish
>
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:50, Eric Sandall wrote:
> > This is from the Lunar list. As I'm experiencing this problem as well
> > since the update.
> >
> > -sandalle
> >
> > ----- Forwarded message from Yoav Avitzour <avitzour AT Princeton.EDU> -----
> > Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 18:13:01 -0400
> > From: Yoav Avitzour <avitzour AT Princeton.EDU>
> > Reply-To: lunar AT lunar-linux.org
> > Subject: Re: problems with gaim 0.71
> > To: "Lunar Linux Mailing List! (all are welcome)"
> > <lunar AT lunar-linux.org>
> >
> > Actually, there is a fix - from the gaim FAQ:
> >
> > Q. I just upgraded Gaim and the MSN plugin will not load. Why?
> > A. You did not compile with SSL support. As of protocol version 9, the
> > MSN protocol requires the use of SSL, which gaim provides by either
> > GnuTls or the combination of NSS and NSPR from the Mozilla project.
> > Install one or both of these and recompile Gaim.
> >
> > The BUILD file for gaim contains --enable-nss=no, and
> > --enable-gnutls=yes. However, it turns out that the configure cannot
> > find gnutls libraries. Which module supplies them ?
> >
> > btw - compilation with --enable-nss=yes breaks.
> >
> > in the mean time, gaim 0.70 works fine.
> >
> > Yoav
> >
> > On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 17:32, Moritz Heiber wrote:
> > > On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:19:22 -0400
> > >
> > > Yoav Avitzour <avitzour AT Princeton.EDU> wrote:
> > > > Not this time ;). This is not a problem with connecting to the msn
> > > > server, it's a problem WITHIN gaim, which is that gaim is unable to
> > > > load the plugin library. It appears before gaim even tries to connect
> > > > to the server.
> > >
> > > Yeah, this is a known problem. The "fix" is to just delete the libmsn*
> > > files from /usr/lib/gaim/ so gaim doesn't load them anymore during it's
> > > startup. Since I seriously doubt that it would be working correctly at
> > > this time anyways its not quite a big loss.
> > > (If its still working you might need to consider reverting to 0.70)
> > >
> > > If you depend on your MSN contacts and/or need IM with MSN support you
> > > will have to find anything else that is endorsed by MS. I recommened
> > > using another protocol.
> > >
> > > Bye,
> > >
> > > Moritz
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> > lunar AT lunar-linux.org
> > http://dbguin.lunar-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/lunar
> >
> > ----- End forwarded message -----
>
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