Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:41:40 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> To: Harald Servat <redcrash@gmail.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Empathy (MSN) unable to connect Message-ID: <4CD88AB4.2000608@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikNsZkUa2fmUiXALmAnJUyVkG0OjK58wiW5Uh5d@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTi=dxfw2_RTc8F3DFJ0zSr2tevFrkpc%2BG7dnaR9R@mail.gmail.com> <86sjzcrn2p.fsf@pluton.xbsd.name> <AANLkTikNsZkUa2fmUiXALmAnJUyVkG0OjK58wiW5Uh5d@mail.gmail.com>
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On 11/8/10 8:12 AM, Harald Servat wrote: > 2010/11/8 Denise H. G. <darcsis@gmail.com> > >> >> On 2010/11/08 at 19:47, Harald Servat <redcrash@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> I find that empathy (latest version available in packages) is not able >> to >>> connect to the MSN network. It reports "Unable to connect". Another user >> and >>> myself have opened a thread about the topic in the freebsd forums but I >>> don't know if you take a look at it, this is the reason of this emai. >>> >>> Have you find the same issues in empathy? Do you have any idea on how >> to >>> fix them? >>> >>> Thank you very much. >>> ................ >> >> Hello, >> >> Same problem here. I've googled the problem and found it perhaps is >> not FreeBSD specific. Many empathy users on Linux platforms have >> reported similar problems. And my solution is to use net-im/emesene >> for MSN messaging ... though it may not be a perfect one... >> >> It seems this has something to do Empathy dealing with MSN protocol. >> It uses a Python library to do the job (the same one Pidgin uses for >> MSN) but unfortunately the library does not agree with empathy in one >> way or another... >> >> -- >> If you have watched a TV series only once, and you watch >> it again, it will be a rerun of the same episode. >> > > You're right, there are other platforms that show the same problem. I tried > the solutions they report, but none worked on my installation, that's what > make me think that this could be freebsd specific. Can you try with papyon 0.5.2 (recently updated). This fixed a rather nasty bug. I'm getting much further along in MSN connection now. Joe > > It looks like we'll have to wait for the next release of empathy. Meanwhile, > I'll take a look at emesene. > > Thank you! > -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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