Bug 566968

Summary: Unable to connect to ICQ - workaround not working on Fedora
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Michael Monreal <michael.monreal>
Component: telepathy-hazeAssignee: Peter Gordon <peter>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 12CC: bdpepple, pbrobinson, peter, s.ciancio, zman0900
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Fixed In Version: telepathy-haze-0.3.1-4.fc12 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Michael Monreal 2010-02-20 19:30:24 UTC
Pidgin.im mentions a fix for the current ICQ login problem. The same fix also seems to work for Empathy/telepathy-haze according to [1].

Problem is, the line mentioned in the FAQ does not work on Fedora 12:

"mc-tool update: Not all parameters were recognized"

On IRC, other F12 users are reporting the same, while it seems to work for Ubuntu users.

Sjoerd Simons also mentioned that the mission-control on F12 is quite old. I took its spec file and built 5.3.2 but even with this, I see the same problem. Something seems to be broken on Fedora :/

[1] http://live.gnome.org/Empathy/FAQ#I_can.27t_connect_to_my_AIM.2BAC8-ICQ_account_anymore

Comment 1 Michael Monreal 2010-02-20 22:49:30 UTC
After lots of discussion on #empathy we found the problem: Fedora is shipping a manager file which is not supposed to be shipped anymore:

%{_datadir}/telepathy/managers/haze.manager

<sjoerd> yeah, haze should stop installing one as well
 in debian we just dropped it from the package

After manually removing this file I can confirm that the workaround works. So please don't include this file.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2010-02-21 01:44:00 UTC
telepathy-haze-0.3.3-2.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/telepathy-haze-0.3.3-2.fc13

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2010-02-21 01:53:05 UTC
telepathy-haze-0.3.1-4.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/telepathy-haze-0.3.1-4.fc12

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2010-02-23 05:16:23 UTC
telepathy-haze-0.3.1-4.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update telepathy-haze'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F12/FEDORA-2010-2492

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2010-02-28 14:44:59 UTC
telepathy-haze-0.3.3-2.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2010-03-02 01:11:01 UTC
telepathy-haze-0.3.1-4.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Stefano C 2010-03-02 21:18:21 UTC
I have updated telepathy-haze to last version, but the problem persist.

$ rpm -q telepathy-haze
telepathy-haze-0.3.1-4.fc12.x86_64

$ mc-tool list | grep aim
haze/aim/xxx

$ mc-tool update haze/aim/xxx bool:use-clientlogin=0
mc-tool update: Not all parameters were recognized

Comment 8 Michael Monreal 2010-03-02 21:23:44 UTC
I compiled my own telepathy-haze-0.3.3 and the workaround works for me. Maybe 0.3.1 is too old? However, I have also compiled a new mission-control... but iirc someone on IRC mentioned that the "old" F12 mission-control should work, too.

Comment 9 Dan Ziemba 2010-06-17 22:24:41 UTC
I am experiencing this issue on F13 with all the latest updates.  Just started up randomly about 3 days ago.  I remember having this issue on Gentoo recently and I fixed it by turning off use-clientlogin, but that command is failing on Fedora.

$ mc-tool update haze/aim/zman0900 bool:use-clientlogin=0
mc-tool: haze/aim/zman0900: Method "GetAll" with signature "s" on interface "org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" doesn't exist

I tried googling the error and found this bug on Ubuntu where another package was getting the same dbus error:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/devicekit-disks/+bug/422392

I also cannot connect to facebook chat anymore. That started up a few days before I lost AIM connectivity, but I doubt it is related since facebook chat rarely works right.

Could this be a problem in dbus rather than in telepathy?

Comment 10 Brian Pepple 2010-06-17 22:34:07 UTC
(In reply to comment #9)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/devicekit-disks/+bug/422392
> 
> I also cannot connect to facebook chat anymore. That started up a few days
> before I lost AIM connectivity, but I doubt it is related since facebook chat
> rarely works right.
> 

The facebook connection is fixed in empathy-2.30.1.1-1. Most likely you'll need to delete you facebook account & re-add it in empathy for the server change to be picked-up.