Found something on the jabber bug with Pidgin in Ubuntu 7.10 regarding the SSL certificate:
http://forum.psi-im.org/thread/4378 No real solution that I can see, but at least awareness of the issue is out there. t. On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 07:16 -0600, Theresa Kehoe wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 10:02 -0600, Robert Citek wrote: > > 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 > > Started there. No joy. Still no jabber. Only "solution" is to boot up > Ubuntu 8.10 in a virtual box every time I want to use Pidgin. Not > ideal. Can't find anything else about it online. Very annoying. > > Maybe my Google search skills suck, but I can't seem to find anything on > what this bug is (found something similar from back in August which they > claim is fixed), or how to fix it. > > Theresa --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
