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xchat-gnome package

irc freenode nickname

Asked by sahnoun Mabrouk on 2016-01-29

hi @all
i have registred my nick name as "SA7M91" on webchat.freenode.net and now i want to use an irc client , when i connect with my nickname some thing like this appear :

/******
***
  Version: TLSv1/SSLv3, cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256 bits)
* Connected. Now logging in.
* *** Looking up your hostname...
* *** Checking Ident
* *** Couldn't look up your hostname
* *** No Ident response
* Capabilities supported: account-notify extended-join identify-msg multi-prefix sasl
* Capabilities requested: account-notify extended-join identify-msg multi-prefix
* SA7M91 is already in use. Retrying with ...
* Capabilities acknowledged: account-notify extended-join identify-msg multi-prefix
* No nickname given

**/

how to solve this ??

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2016-01-29
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2016-01-29
Torsten Franz (torsten.franz) said : #1

I think that somebody use the nick. You can ghost him and logged in.

Forst you must ghost him with the following command:

/msg nickserv ghost username password

And than you can log in:

/nick username

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