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Yahoo Account Locked For Unknown Reason

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I've upgraded pidgin to the latest version of 2.5.8. Now I'm having a problem to connect to my Yahoo account. It gives this error:

Account locked: Unknown reason.
Logging into the Yahoo! website may fix this.

I'd change the username from example to <email address hidden> and try to reconnect it. I also had try changing the pager server from the default to cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com. None of these worked out. I'm able to log in from Yahoo! Website, which means that there is no problem regarding my Yahoo Account.

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Hemanth (hemanth-hm) said : 		#1

Hmm does it work on gajim?

try out gajim and report back please

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Gajim

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Hemanth (hemanth-hm) said : 		#2

If you prefer to be in Pidgin only , then fix the yahoo issue by doing this :

    * Simply go to Applications > Accessories > Terminal and type the following.

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 67265eb522bdd6b1c69e66ed7fb8bee0a1f196a8

Add Pidgin Launchpad Repo

    * Goto System > Administration > Software Sources and select Third Party Software tab. Now click the Add button and enter the repo address given below.

 deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/pidgin-developers/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

Upgrade to Pidgin 2.5.7

    * Simply do the following in terminal.

       sudo apt-get update
       sudo apt-get upgrade

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freebie (myaz-resources) said : 		#3

referring to this page -> http://pidgin.im/download/ubuntu/
I've run these lines at terminal:

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com \ 67265eb522bdd6b1c69e66ed7fb8bee0a1f196a8

echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/pidgin-developers/ppa/ubuntu \
 `lsb_release --short --codename` main | \
    sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pidgin-ppa.list

and then upgraded pidgin from 2.5.7 to 2.5.8

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#4

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