Bug 453634 – RHEL5 - Fix ICQ login

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Bug 453634 - RHEL5 - Fix ICQ login

Summary:	RHEL5 - Fix ICQ login

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	pidgin (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	5.2
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	low Severity high
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Assigned To:	Warren Togami
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Keywords:	ZStream

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Blocks:	453790
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Reported:	2008-07-01 12:43 EDT by Heiko Adams
Modified:	2008-07-09 04:35 EDT (History)
CC List:	13 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	RHSA-2008-0584
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2008-07-09 04:35:29 EDT
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possibly better patch (948 bytes, patch) 2008-07-01 15:27 EDT, Stu Tomlinson	no flags	Details \| Diff
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External Trackers
Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2008:0584	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: pidgin security and bug fix update	2008-07-09 04:35:26 EDT

Groups: None (edit)

Description Heiko Adams 2008-07-01 12:43:53 EDT

Description of problem:
Since to day I can't connect to the icq network anymore. All attempts are stoped
by pidgin with a message box telling that the client version is too old. Pidgin
also deactivates the icq account automatically.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pidgin.i386                              2.3.1-1.el5
libpurple.i386                           2.3.1-1.el5

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start pidgin
2. Create an icq account if necessary
3. Try to connect to the icq network
  
Actual results:
Pidgin doesn't connect to icq and deactivates the icq account

Expected results:
The connection should be established successfully

Additional info:

Comment 1 Warren Togami 2008-07-01 13:04:37 EDT

Even the latest version of pidgin-2.4.2 has the same issue.  It appears that
upstream is discussing what can be done about this.

Comment 2 Zdenek Kabelac 2008-07-01 13:29:55 EDT

Happens to me as well - so I'm back on the good old day, where text consoles
were working - centerim still seems to work pretty well.

AOL is playing again some 'update protocol' game...

Comment 3 Warren Togami 2008-07-01 13:44:50 EDT

This patch reportedly works on pidgin-2.4.2.  I'm doing test builds.

#
# old_revision [dba36543cdde6db127857b0edfdc3ad1969bbd39]
#
# patch "libpurple/protocols/oscar/oscar.h"
#  from [a40e3332eade975c73e344e17bd06d4b99cae751]
#    to [7853a27f5f8735092ebefef567aaeeccad2a057c]
#
============================================================
--- libpurple/protocols/oscar/oscar.h	a40e3332eade975c73e344e17bd06d4b99cae751
+++ libpurple/protocols/oscar/oscar.h	7853a27f5f8735092ebefef567aaeeccad2a057c
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ struct _ClientInfo
 
 #define CLIENTINFO_PURPLE_ICQ { \
 	"Purple/" VERSION, \
-	0x010a, \
+	0x010b, \
 	0x0014, 0x0034, \
 	0x0000, 0x0bb8, \
 	0x0000043d, \

Comment 4 Stu Tomlinson 2008-07-01 15:27:15 EDT

Created attachment 310710 [details]
possibly better patch

The patch in comment #3 may not be a great idea, as I think someone just
randomly changed a number and it happened to work. I've attached an updated
patch that makes us mimic the official ICQ6 client, but as this bumps the
version we report as from ICQ5 to ICQ6 I don't know if it results in other
incompatibilities.

Comment 5 Paul Bredbury 2008-07-01 20:47:17 EDT

RPMs which include http://www.pidgin.im/pidgin-2.4.2-icq6.patch as mentioned at
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=230389 to fix this are available at
ftp://brebs.me.uk/fedora/9/ - this involves 9 RPMs:

pidgin*
libpurple*
finch*

Comment 6 Peter Janakiev 2008-07-02 02:33:52 EDT

Thanks Paul, ICQ is working now, ICQ accounts are connecting successfully.

Comment 7 Zdenek Kabelac 2008-07-02 03:55:06 EDT

Thanks Paul, I can confirm as well, that just forcing instalation of libpurple
made my Fedora Rawhide fc10 Pidgin fully operational again.

that was quick ;)

Just a note - the latest kopete from KDE4 seemed to be unaffected by this issue.

Comment 8 Tobias Ottmar 2008-07-02 04:53:35 EDT

The guys from pidgin have released a new version today. The last time I tried,
http://www.pidgin.im was working again, but the new version can also be found on
sourceforge. The Changelog says that the problem with ICQ is gone, see
http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/6220

Please roll out the new version soon!

Comment 12 RHEL Product and Program Management 2008-07-02 08:29:09 EDT

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 13 Martin Jürgens 2008-07-02 08:31:13 EDT

version in koji works great. please propose it as an update asap. thanks.

Comment 14 Josh Bressers 2008-07-02 09:56:51 EDT

This is going to be fixed in a pending security update.  I'm adding the 5.2.z flag.

Comment 15 Tobias Ottmar 2008-07-02 10:23:58 EDT

Sorry if this is spam, but the problem is not only in RHEL 5, but also in Fedora
(exact: Fedora 9 i386). Do we need another ticket for Fedora? I hope not. But if
we do, could someone of you who has more knowledge about how things work here
make an appropriate bug report? (And add a reference here...) 

Thanks!

Comment 16 Martin Jürgens 2008-07-02 10:44:48 EDT

Tobias, will be in Fedora-updates shortly. You can speed up things by voting for
it on https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/pending/pidgin-2.4.3-1.fc9 ,
there's also a download link for the RPM.

Comment 21 errata-xmlrpc 2008-07-09 04:35:29 EDT

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0584.html

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