From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 8 23:41:42 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 502291065673 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2010 23:41:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@freebsd.org) Received: from av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (hen.cisco.com [64.102.19.198]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8BFA8FC33 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2010 23:41:41 +0000 (UTC) X-TACSUNS: Virus Scanned Received: from rooster.cisco.com (localhost.cisco.com [127.0.0.1]) by av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id oA8NffNg008096; Mon, 8 Nov 2010 18:41:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from fruit-rollup.marcuscom.com (jclarke-pc.cisco.com [172.18.254.236]) by rooster.cisco.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id oA8NfeQe006649; Mon, 8 Nov 2010 18:41:40 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4CD88AB4.2000608@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:41:40 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Harald Servat References: <86sjzcrn2p.fsf@pluton.xbsd.name> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Empathy (MSN) unable to connect X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 23:41:42 -0000 On 11/8/10 8:12 AM, Harald Servat wrote: > 2010/11/8 Denise H. G. > >> >> On 2010/11/08 at 19:47, Harald Servat 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