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(04:33:09) oscar: Destroying oscar connection of type 0x0007. Disconnect reason is 2

Asked by poetclown

Pidgin wont connect to Yahoo but connects to aim just fine. Debug window shows (04:33:09) oscar: Destroying oscar connection of type 0x0007. Disconnect reason is 2, Im not the smartest feller in the world. But i did make the switch to Ubuntu 2 yrs ago on my own and this is a first for me . Any Ideas ?

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#1

Hi,

Please try the solution from John Bailey here:

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+question/36928

Regards,

Mark

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poetclown (jvisco66) said : 		#2

no luck so far have tried to delete .purple ..also reinstalled pidgin no luck ..I can open my yahoo through firefox Aside from that I am kinda lost

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poetclown (jvisco66) said : 		#3

yahoo: 97 bytes to read, rxlen is 117
(05:20:02) yahoo: Yahoo Service: 0x57 Status: 1
(05:20:02) yahoo: yahoo status: 0
(05:20:07) util: Writing file accounts.xml to directory /home/jerry/.purple
(05:20:07) util: Writing file /home/jerry/.purple/accounts.xml

This is what i see in debug when trying to connect

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#4

Hi,

Did you follow this procedure from John Bailey - including the purge - as I recommended earlier on?

To remove libpurple, do:
sudo apt-get remove --purge libpurple0

This will likely remove pidgin as well, so to get them back do:
sudo apt-get install libpurple0 pidgin

Regards,

Mark

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#5

Hi,

If the previous suggestion did not work, try these instead:

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+question/74708
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+question/74704

Regards,

Mark

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