From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020206 Description of problem: Gaim cannot connect if configured to use a socks5 proxy. This was a problem with gaim 0.51. This has been fixed in gaim 0.52 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Configure gaim to use socks5 proxy 2.attemp to connect Actual Results: Gaim cannot connect Expected Results: Gaim to connect Additional info: This was a bug in Gaim 0.51. This has been fixed in gaim 0.52.
downloaded gaim-0.52-1.src.rpm from http://gaim.sourceforge.net/. Compiled and installed this version. The socks5 config and TOC worked correctly.
Should be fixed in the latest betas, as we are shipping gaim-0.53 now.