For a few days now, Empathy fails to connect to ICQ. The only output is "Network error". The same problem happens on my laptop (F12) and desktop (F12). I installed the F13 empathy package on the desktop to test, still the same problem. Not sure if I can provide any more data because the connection manager used for ICQ does not seem to provide logging features...
Hmm I just found this upstream bug¹. Seems like his problems started at around the same time... would be interesting to know if he is using Fedora, too... [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=606471
Does "yum downgrade libpurple", waiting a few minutes, followed by a restart solve the problem for anyone experiencing this ICQ problem recently? I am wondering if this is related to Bug 554923.
The downgrade got me to purple 2.6.3, but even after a reboot I still see the same problem.
I update purple again after seeing the old version did not work. Waited a day, and now everything is working again... strange?
Did the update to empathy-2.28.2-2.fc12.i686 fix it, perhaps?
No, I did not update empathy recently. Maybe it was a server issue after all...
I guess we'll close the bug, then. Feel free to reopen if you experience this problem again.