Thread: ICQ not connecting
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michalurban is offline michalurban
2010-06-03 , 23:18
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#9
Originally Posted by lunatik View Post
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.

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! 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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