pidgin has stopped working

2013-01-18 Thread Ians
Dear Pidgin Support I have a problem, when i connect pidgin with Mxit pidgin always error. And dtail Problem signature: Problem Event Name:APPCRASH Application Name: pidgin.exe Application Version:

problems with MSN certificate chain

2013-01-18 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, Since today morning I can't connect to MSN anymore; it says that the certificates can't be validated; This is with pidgin 2.10.x Any thing I can do? Thanks matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e g...@unixarea.de - w

Re: problems with MSN certificate chain

2013-01-18 Thread David Woolley
Matthias Apitz wrote: Since today morning I can't connect to MSN anymore; it says that the certificates can't be validated; This is the second report to the list. I tried using a Windows Pidgin (probably a little dated). This also produces a certificate warning, but I imagine most Windows

Re: problems with MSN certificate chain

2013-01-18 Thread David Woolley
David Woolley wrote: I tried using a Windows Pidgin (probably a little dated). This also 2.10.3, so not that dated. produces a certificate warning, but I imagine most Windows users would just select the option to ignore the problem. Looking at the certificate, I think the problem is

Re: problems with MSN certificate chain

2013-01-18 Thread Ethan Blanton
David Woolley spake unto us the following wisdom: Looking at the certificate, I think the problem is that the certificate is for contacts.msn.com, but the server is local-bay.contacts.msn.com. An earlier certificate for a server in the contacts.msn.com domain (omega.contacts.msn.com) seems to

Re: problems with MSN certificate chain

2013-01-18 Thread Michael Secord
As it is, I've noticed this MSN popup the last few days, but today I haven't been prompted with it, so maybe the issue is already resolved on MSN's side? Ethan Blanton wrote: David Woolley spake unto us the following wisdom: Looking at the certificate, I think the problem is that the

Re: problems with MSN certificate chain

2013-01-18 Thread David Woolley
Ethan Blanton wrote: Pidgin doesn't use the OS root certificates *only* on Windows. At least some Linux distributions don't have an OS level certificate store; each application maintains its own set of root certificates. On the other hand, applications like Firefox, which would use their

Re: problems with MSN certificate chain

2013-01-18 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, January 18, 2013 a las 08:52:16AM -0500, Ethan Blanton escribió: David Woolley spake unto us the following wisdom: Looking at the certificate, I think the problem is that the certificate is for contacts.msn.com, but the server is local-bay.contacts.msn.com. An earlier

Re: problems with MSN certificate chain

2013-01-18 Thread Ethan Blanton
Matthias Apitz spake unto us the following wisdom: Pidgin doesn't use the OS root certificates *only* on Windows. I'm not a native English and do not understand your phrase; could you please explain what you say; thanks On non-Windows systems, there is often a certificate store that Pidgin

Re: problems with MSN certificate chain

2013-01-18 Thread Fosforo
the SHA1 of the popup certificate for local-bay.contacts.msn.com i am getting is: f6:56:e3:29:84:86:8b:6b:38:fd:e4:aa:70:1a:00:4a:33:4d:ba:04 just would like to confirm it is valid before accept. -- []s Fosforo - Se eu tiver oito

msn new certificate

2013-01-18 Thread Fosforo
Just confirming that others received also the same certificate for contacts.msn.com domain: Name: contacts.msn.com Impressão digital (SHA1): f6:56:e3:29:84:86:8b:6b:38:fd:e4:aa:70:1a:00:4a:33:4d:ba:04 Data de ativação: Fri Jan 11 14:47:08 2013 Data de expiração: Sun Jan 11 14:47:08 2015 --

Re: problems with MSN certificate chain

2013-01-18 Thread David Woolley
Ethan Blanton wrote: On Windows, we don't use the system store. I don't know why not, I assume it's painful, probably because of poor OS design and implementation. Probably because one would have to use all of the Windows public key infrastructure, instead of the open source

Re: problems with MSN certificate chain

2013-01-18 Thread David Woolley
Fosforo wrote: the SHA1 of the popup certificate for local-bay.contacts.msn.com i am getting is: f6:56:e3:29:84:86:8b:6b:38:fd:e4:aa:70:1a:00:4a:33:4d:ba:04 just would like to confirm it is valid before accept. Unfortunately I deleted it, and didn't write down the OpenSSL fingerprint.

Re: Pidgin MSN certificate chain broken

2013-01-18 Thread David Woolley
Jeronimo de A. Barros wrote: Hi... Today my pidgin is refusing to connect to MSN and returns this error: Unable to validate certificate The certificate for local-blu-people.directory.live.com could not be validated. The certificate chain presented is invalid. It would appear that

Pidgin icon in Ubuntu 12.10/Mint/Cinnamon fixed (at least for me!)

2013-01-18 Thread Dustin DeVries
For anyone having trouble with the Pidgin icon disappearing in Cinnamon in the system tray, I was able to fix it using the following hack: As root (or sudo) from a terminal window: cd /usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/tray/hicolor mv 16x16 16x16old ln -s 22x22 16x16 Then restart pidgin. This

Re: problems with MSN certificate chain

2013-01-18 Thread David Woolley
David Woolley wrote: To the extent that that is the problem, simply replacing the .pem file with a current one, should sort the problem. I don't know if you will The server certificates don't seem to include the full certificate chain, so I think you will need to install the pem file for

Re: Pidgin icon in Ubuntu 12.10/Mint/Cinnamon fixed (at least for me!)

2013-01-18 Thread Tres Finocchiaro
Thanks for this, Dustin. Since Cinnamon plays nicer with the 22x22 version, perhaps the Cinnamon desktop team has a way of making this default? Pidgin + Cinnamon are a fairly popular combination, I'm sure others will benefit from your investigation. -Tres On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:10 PM,

Re: Pidgin icon in Ubuntu 12.10/Mint/Cinnamon fixed (at least for me!)

2013-01-18 Thread Dustin DeVries
Yes, I actually brought this up on the system icon bugs thread for cinnamon (don't have the url handy) that was a catchall ticket for bugs related to system tray behavior, so hopefully someone on the cinnamon development team can help us out. Either way, in glad to finally have this fixed! On Jan

Re: problems with MSN certificate chain

2013-01-18 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, January 18, 2013 a las 04:34:03PM +, David Woolley escribió: Probably because one would have to use all of the Windows public key infrastructure, instead of the open source implementation. The non-Windows ones are probably designed for use with OpenSSL. In Matthias'

Re: problems with MSN certificate chain

2013-01-18 Thread David Woolley
Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Friday, January 18, 2013 a las 04:34:03PM +, David Woolley escribió: Probably because one would have to use all of the Windows public key infrastructure, instead of the open source implementation. The non-Windows ones are probably designed for use with

Konfiruration Problem

2013-01-18 Thread Pope Greg
Hallo, It doen’t work The Tutorial is NOT exact enough! Es funktioniert einfach nicht, das Tutorial ist an den entscheidenden Punkten zu ungenau. Hier meine Jabber Daten (Mail): Du hast eben über http://einfachjabber.de http://einfachjabber.de einen neuen Jabber-Account