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ICQ not connecting

Sorry for creating a separate topic for a problem I mentioned in 2 other threads, but I believe its a bit hidden down there.

The problem lies in the Conversations app - after upgrade to 1.2 it stopped showing contacts - after clicking New IM, there were "No contacts".

Tomorrow, I received info about available upgrades and was happy seeing Conversation work OK. But, after reboot, Im unable to login my ICQ account without receiving any kind of error message. Actually, I believe it doesnt even try to connect, as when Im in the Accounts menu, click ICQ, click login - and it instantly falls back to the accounts list without any error. There is a note just by the ICQ account, saying "Not logged in" (or something like that, I have my phon i Czech lang).

Im fully updated and upgraded (and my N900 aswell :) ) ... and rebooted ...

If anyone knows what to do or has the same problem, pls tell ... :)

PS: According to the other threads mentioned, there are 2 other men so far having this issue. The threads are here (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=53567&page=4) and here (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...465#post697465).

Re: ICQ not connecting

I have the same problem with ICQ in the built in chat client. I experienced it long before PR1.2 upgrade though. Initially it worked for a day or so and never again. Its a pain as I need to keep Pidgeon open all the time just for icq as my whole company is on icq. I was hoping that the latest firmware would fix this

Re: ICQ not connecting

Quote:

Originally Posted by lunatik (Post 698452)

See my post here: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...6&postcount=26

Will check that out. Thanks man!

EDIT: You say - Disable devel and testing. Am I supposed to HALT the package account plugin afterwards, before re-enabling devel/testing?

Add 1: OK, icq working again, now Ill check what happens after I enable extras and testing and upgrade ... Stay tuned lol

Add 2: Not ok, after I enabled test+dev and upgraded, I am back again where I dont want to be ... Lets lets start with halting upgrade of accounts-plugin and telepathy haze ...

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Yep, upgrading kills all the joy. I've been told that telepathy plugins mess all things up. What the hell do they do, anyways?

Re: ICQ not connecting

Quote:

Originally Posted by lunatik (Post 698546)

Yep, upgrading kills all the joy. I've been told that telepathy plugins mess all things up. What the hell do they do, anyways?

Heh, Im curious, what should I be holding from upgrade? Holding telepathy-haze kept also account-haze back, but after T+D upgrade, its not working again ...

Whats your idea? libpurple?

Re: ICQ not connecting

Doesnt wokr for me on AIM, just started today

Re: ICQ not connecting

I dunno which upgrade leads to this bug, but just so that you know, I've had just the same problem as you described in your first post.
As in my case, the steps that lead me to the problem were following:

I saw that account-haze was marked to be autoremoved by apt, but I didn't pay much attention to it
So I had it for about a week. No upgrades were done to any parts of conversation-related software.
Then at wednesday morning I was unable to login into ICQ and found out that haze was removed from the system.
I reinstalled haze, but it did not help. Then I kept reinstalling various packages until one guy from our russian forum told me to disable repos.

Re: ICQ not connecting

Quote:

Originally Posted by lunatik (Post 698626)

I saw that account-haze was marked to be autoremoved by apt, but I didn't pay much attention to it
So I had it for about a week. No upgrades were done to any parts of conversation-related software.
Then at wednesday morning I was unable to login into ICQ and found out that haze was removed from the system.
I reinstalled haze, but it did not help. Then I kept reinstalling various packages until one guy from our russian forum told me to disable repos.

Well, thank you very much! :) I set some packages to hold and it seems to be OK for upgrade now. Maybe my "howto" helps someone:

1) I disabled testing + devel repos in app manager

2) in xterm, I purged libpurple0 and then autoremoved all remaining cr*p

Code:

sudo gainroot 

apt-get --purge remove libpurple0

apt-get autoremove

3) reboot

4) installed account plugin 0.7

5) I set libpurple0 and telepathy-haze to hold (telepathy-haze was not enough)

Code:

echo libpurple0 hold | dpkg --set-selections

echo telepathy-haze hold | dpkg --set-selections

6) enabled testing+devel repos in the app manager.

7) gone through update and upgrade (as I was up-to-date before doing losing my ability to login to icq, there was nothing to upgrade though)

Code:

sudo gainroot 

apt-get update

apt-get upgrade

78 did a reboot to make sure everything is ok ...

... and it seems to be! :D Lets hope everything stays that way after some updated packages arrive ... :)

Im using ICQ, FB Chat, MSN, Jabber and Skype - all OK. Cant test AOL, sorry necco.

EDIT: It messed up my contacts, made duplicate entries ... but my original entries were left intact ... so, I had to merge my original and "new" ICQ contact again ...

WARNING: Do not use App Manager for updates, it ignored the HOLDing I set up and now I have to do all of this again ... Use apt-get update and apt-get upgrade ...

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WARNING: Do not use App Manager for updates, it ignored the HOLDing I set up and now I have to do all of this again ... :-/

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Eek!

How can you undo the 'holding' bit? I just did the bit before the dkpg bit - will that mess things up?

Damn

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Lake (Post 702339)

Eek!

How can you undo the 'holding' bit? I just did the bit before the dkpg bit - will that mess things up?

Damn

just write install instead of hold

Re: ICQ not connecting

Many thanks michalurban for starting this thread, this issue had already turned up on page X of several unrelated topics.
I managed to fix the specific issue of ICQ not connecting (since 1.2) by following your advice in another thread - simply uninstalled and reinstalled 'Pidgin protocols plugin for Conversations and Contacts' with a reboot in between and having first deleted all of my accounts. For ICQ to then connect successfully I had to turn off 'User Clientlogin' as suggested elsewhere. Like you I then had to merge the ICQ contacts back into my *primary* contacts.

Re: ICQ not connecting

New version of haze (or account-plugin) seems to work fine. You should just uncheck ssl and client login options. Also don't forget to reboot after upgrade.
So to revert to new version do:

Code:

echo libpurple0 install | dpkg --set-selections

echo telepathy-haze install | dpkg --set-selections

Then better do

Code:

apt-get dist-upgrade

and reboot.