On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Theresa Kehoe <[email protected]> wrote:
> On my main machine I'm still running Ubuntu 7.10; it has Pidgin version
> 2.2.1 on it.  Yesterday Jabber quit working.  I can connect to the Yahoo
> server, but [email protected]/Home is continually disconnected, with the
> message "SSL peer presented an invalid certificate".

Maybe the older Pidgin got a digital case of psittacossis.  :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psittacosis

> Now, if I start up VirtualBox, and launch Ubuntu 8.10 (Pidgin 2.5.2)
> then the same Jabber account connects on this machine, with no problems.
>
> Everything was working yesterday morning, but something got broken
> yesterday afternoon would be my guess (there were some Ubuntu updates
> yesterday).
>
> Any clues?

I would probably start with the Ubuntu bugs list:

http://tinyurl.com/pidgin-bugs

(notice that you can now use aliases with tinyurl.  Very nice.)

Regards,
- Robert

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