ah, I had to set my loginid to kernelslacker and also set the server to livejournal.com in the advanced settings.  That second part should be unnecessary.

Hey Dave, could you run the following in a terminal:

GABBLE_PERSIST=1 LM_DEBUG=net GABBLE_DEBUG=all /usr/libexec/telepathy-gabble 2>&1 | tee gabble.log

and then start up Empathy, and try to connect to the jabber server at livejournal.  The log fromn this should give me a better idea why this isn't working.  Thanks.

read comment #1.  I figured out how to make it work, it just needed some non-obvious changes in the advanced UI, making me input the servername twice.

(if I leave it off the loginID, it assumes jabber.org)

(In reply to comment #3)
> read comment #1.  I figured out how to make it work, it just needed some
> non-obvious changes in the advanced UI, making me input the servername twice.
> 
> (if I leave it off the loginID, it assumes jabber.org)

Ah, missed that.  Sorry.

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

(In reply to comment #1)
> ah, I had to set my loginid to kernelslacker and also set the
> server to livejournal.com in the advanced settings.  That second part should be
> unnecessary.

Hmm, it's weird. It really doesn't work for me, but it should, because livejournal has correct SRV record and telepathy-gabble is able to use it (in all other cases):

[matej@viklef redhat]$ host -t SRV _xmpp-client._tcp.livejournal.com
_xmpp-client._tcp.livejournal.com has SRV record 0 10 5222 \
    xmpp.services.livejournal.com.
[matej@viklef redhat]$

Actually, it might be another revelation of http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20982 and http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20158

I don't use this any more, so might as well close this out.