PIDGIN suddenly quit working with Yahoo IM

john_tartar · #1 19th June 2009, 02:35 AM

I have been using PIDGIN with yahoo IM for many months and loved it.
But suddenly today it refused to connect.

I suspected a yahoo problem, so I rebooted my machine under WinXP and ran Yahoo's IM program, and everything was fine.

So I rebooted under Fedora 10, and tried Pidgen again.
No error message, it just constantly says "connecting" along with the connecting ICON in the upper right, rather than the normal one.

Anybody else have this problem?
Any ideas?

I'm running Fedora 10, Pidgin 2.5.4-1.fc10
Debug window says

(18:31:58) connection: Connecting. gc = 0xa4f8878
(18:31:58) dns: DNS query for 'scs.msg.yahoo.com' queued
(18:31:58) dns: Wait for DNS child 3093 failed: No child processes
(18:31:58) dns: Created new DNS child 3326, there are now 1 children.
(18:31:58) dns: Successfully sent DNS request to child 3326
(18:31:59) dns: Got response for 'scs.msg.yahoo.com'
(18:31:59) dnsquery: IP resolved for scs.msg.yahoo.com
(18:31:59) proxy: Attempting connection to 68.180.217.6
(18:31:59) proxy: Connecting to scs.msg.yahoo.com:5050 with no proxy
(18:31:59) proxy: Connection in progress
(18:31:59) proxy: Connecting to scs.msg.yahoo.com:5050.
(18:31:59) yahoo: 96 bytes to read, rxlen is 116
(18:31:59) yahoo: Yahoo Service: 0x57 Status: 1
(18:31:59) yahoo: yahoo status: 1

cheerio158 · #2 19th June 2009, 02:49 AM

I've got the same problem

This started to happen on my home ISP the evening of June 20, but was working fine during the day on my work's ISP. Currently, it is not working this evening (June 21).

Also, I know that pidgin on the Windoze is also having the same problem so I probably isn't a recent Fedora update that caused this.

#3 19th June 2009, 02:51 AM

i get the problem in Windows to

PabloTwo · #4 19th June 2009, 02:54 AM

I can confirm... F8 and pidgin-2.5.2. Won't connect to Yahoo IM when I just now tried.

DCOH · #5 19th June 2009, 03:15 AM

Have you tried changing your Yahoo server? Mine is set to japan and won't logon in F11 but Gyachi will.

erroneus · #6 19th June 2009, 03:44 AM

Same thing going on with me. Just ran some massive updates and the results are the same as others are experiencing.

I am running Fedora 11 64 bit, GNOME desktop and whatever the latest version of pidgin is that is in the repository. (2.5.6 I believe) When running pidgin from the command line with the "-d" option, I saw this:

Code:

(21:39:34) dns: Got response for 'scs.msg.yahoo.com'
(21:39:34) dnsquery: IP resolved for scs.msg.yahoo.com
(21:39:34) proxy: Attempting connection to 68.180.217.12
(21:39:34) proxy: Connecting to scs.msg.yahoo.com:5050 with no proxy
(21:39:34) proxy: Connection in progress
(21:39:35) proxy: Connecting to scs.msg.yahoo.com:5050.
(21:39:36) yahoo: 108 bytes to read, rxlen is 128
(21:39:36) yahoo: Yahoo Service: 0x57 Status: 1
(21:39:36) yahoo: yahoo status: 99

virason · #7 19th June 2009, 03:48 AM

ditto wih libpurple 2.5.6 on f10

doesn't connect with yahoo but okay with ms

erroneus · #8 19th June 2009, 03:56 AM

http://www.celticwolf.com/useful-inf...6-pidgin-yahoo

Interesting background information. It is Yahoo causing the problem. Hopefully there will be an update from Pidgin to reflect the changes that Yahoo is making.

amitshruti123 · #9 19th June 2009, 08:05 AM

thanks for the link ..

Jamwa · #10 19th June 2009, 10:44 AM

Had the same issue and I opted for Kopete. Unfortunately again Kopete broke yesterday, so right now I wend the "geeky" way - BitlBee with Weechat as front-end. Its not aesthetically appealing as its a console-based chat system but at least it works :-)

virason · #11 19th June 2009, 11:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by erroneus

http://www.celticwolf.com/useful-inf...6-pidgin-yahoo

Interesting background information. It is Yahoo causing the problem. Hopefully there will be an update from Pidgin to reflect the changes that Yahoo is making.

Many thanks for the link. It works for now and hopefully until the next pidgin rev.

craftyminion · #12 19th June 2009, 11:28 AM

I've been having the same problem with Pidgin. Damnably irritating what!

However I've found that Gyach-E is still working.

The Crafty One

theSuperman · #13 19th June 2009, 01:09 PM

This explains a lot. Gyach-E does connect, however if you try and send instant messenges, the recipients will never receive them. Simple test: start Gyach-E twice, logging into two different Yahoo accounts. If you try and message the one from the other, messages will never get sent. However you can still receive messages, and the other person will see you are typing.

Maybe your Gyach-E is connecting to one of the servers that hasnt been upgraded. Which one are you connecting to?

Quote:

Originally Posted by craftyminion

I've been having the same problem with Pidgin. Damnably irritating what!

However I've found that Gyach-E is still working.

The Crafty One

john_tartar · #14 19th June 2009, 03:22 PM

Well Yahoos windows software still works.
And you can now access yahoo IM through Yahoo mail.

My guess is that yahoo is intentionally blocking other programs
because of the increasing amount of IM Spam these days.

But my older Yahoo windows program still works fine, so it's been planned in.

theSuperman · #15 19th June 2009, 03:41 PM

Connecting to one of the alternate servers (from the link posted above) allows me to connect with all the programs that didn't work before. Why would yahoo block third party messenger programs to combat spam? AIM doesn't do that and I never get AIM spam. They would be alienating a somewhaþ large group of people who use all-in-one messenger programs.