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Date:      Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:14:01 +0100
From:      Harald Servat <redcrash@gmail.com>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>
Cc:        gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Empathy (MSN) unable to connect
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2010/11/10 Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>

> On 11/10/10 4:47 PM, Harald Servat wrote:
> >
> >
> > 2010/11/10 Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org
> > <mailto:marcus@freebsd.org>>
> >
> >     On 11/9/10 4:41 PM, Harald Servat wrote:
> >     > 2010/11/9 Harald Servat <redcrash@gmail.com
> >     <mailto:redcrash@gmail.com>>
> >     >
> >     >>
> >     >>
> >     >> 2010/11/9 Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org
> >     <mailto:marcus@freebsd.org>>
> >     >>
> >     >> On 11/8/10 8:12 AM, Harald Servat wrote:
> >     >>>> 2010/11/8 Denise H. G. <darcsis@gmail.com
> >     <mailto:darcsis@gmail.com>>
> >     >>>>
> >     >>>>>
> >     >>>>> On 2010/11/08 at 19:47, Harald Servat <redcrash@gmail.com
> >     <mailto: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
> >     >>>
> >     >>
> >     >>
> >     >> Ok, I'll give a try when I'm in my FreeBSD box.
> >     >>
> >     >> Thank you!
> >     >>
> >     >> --
> >     >> _________________________________________________________________
> >     >>  Fry: You can see how I lived before I met you.
> >     >>  Bender: You lived before you met me?!
> >     >>  Fry: Yeah, lots of people did.
> >     >>  Bender: Really?!
> >     >>
> >     >>
> >     > Joe,
> >     >
> >     >   I'm seeing the same behavior even using papyon 0.5.2 (I've just
> >     upgraded
> >     > this port).
> >
> >     Make sure all telepathy processes have been killed.  Then, from
> empathy,
> >     to go Help > Debug, and look at the MSN messages.  What errors do
> >     you get?
> >
> >
> > Joe,
> >
> >   from a cold boot, empathy was unable to log into my msn account.
> > Looking at Help > Debug I can find two debug types "Empathy" and
> > "misson-control". The former shows me a gray windows with the "The
> > selected connection manager does not support the remote debugging
> > extension". The latter, shows me two messages, both of them are the same
> > (maybe because I tried to connect twice, one at the start of empathy and
> > once when I hit the "reload" button):
> >
> > request_connection_cb: RequestConnection failed: Message did not receive
> > a reply (timeout by message bus)
> >
> >   Does it help? Can I provide something else to debug it?
>
> This sounds like a telepathy-butterfly problem.  Try reinstalling that
> port.
>
>
I've run

  make install clean -DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER

  but I'm getting the same error (& message error). Any other idea to try?

Regards.


> Joe
>
> --
> Joe Marcus Clarke
> FreeBSD GNOME Team      ::      gnome@FreeBSD.org
> FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
>



-- 
_________________________________________________________________
 Fry: You can see how I lived before I met you.
 Bender: You lived before you met me?!
 Fry: Yeah, lots of people did.
 Bender: Really?!



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