[Bug 389322] Re: Yahoo server authentication changed: Pidgin =<2.5.6 will not connect to Yahoo! servers.

[Chandria]

Pidgin 2.5.8   Firefox 3.0.13


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From: clombard <clombard44 at yahoo.com>
To: midnight_moonlight_dance at yahoo.com
Sent: Thursday, 20 August, 2009 17:31:25
Subject: Re: [Bug 389322] Re: Yahoo server authentication changed: Pidgin =<2.5.6 will not connect to Yahoo! servers.

hello...what version of Firefox and Pidgin are you using...?

--- On Thu, 8/20/09, saasitah <fekubari at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: saasitah <fekubari at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Bug 389322] Re: Yahoo server authentication changed: Pidgin =<2.5.6 will not connect to Yahoo! servers.
To: clombard44 at yahoo.com
Date: Thursday, August 20, 2009, 8:33 AM

ok, mine is about yahoo. it just keeps on hanging and i have to restart
firefox each and every time. This happens on different machines at times
not, please help out am stranded

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Yahoo server authentication changed: Pidgin =<2.5.6 will not connect to Yahoo! servers.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/389322
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Yahoo server authentication changed: Pidgin =<2.5.6 will not connect to Yahoo! servers.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/389322
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Status in Hardy Heron Backports: Invalid
Status in Pidgin: Fix Committed
Status in “pidgin” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
Status in pidgin in Ubuntu Dapper: Won't Fix
Status in pidgin in Ubuntu Hardy: Confirmed
Status in pidgin in Ubuntu Intrepid: Confirmed
Status in pidgin in Ubuntu Jaunty: Fix Released
Status in pidgin in Ubuntu Karmic: Fix Released

Bug description:
Binary package hint: pidgin

Just hangs trying to connect to yahoo.
all other account types seem to be working fine just not yahoo.
pidgin 2.5.5
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pidgin debug log :
(09:19:46) account: Connecting to account MyYahooAccount
(09:19:46) connection: Connecting. gc = 0x8e3e1c8
(09:19:46) dns: DNS query for 'scs.msg.yahoo.com' queued
(09:19:46) dns: DNS child 5936 no longer exists
(09:19:46) dns: Created new DNS child 6064, there are now 1 children.
(09:19:46) dns: Successfully sent DNS request to child 6064
(09:19:48) dns: Got response for 'scs.msg.yahoo.com'
(09:19:48) dnsquery: IP resolved for scs.msg.yahoo.com
(09:19:48) proxy: Attempting connection to 76.13.15.32
(09:19:48) proxy: Connecting to scs.msg.yahoo.com:5050 with no proxy
(09:19:48) proxy: Connection in progress
(09:19:49) proxy: Connecting to scs.msg.yahoo.com:5050.
(09:19:49) yahoo: 96 bytes to read, rxlen is 116
(09:19:49) yahoo: Yahoo Service: 0x57 Status: 1
(09:19:49) yahoo: yahoo status: 12
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ping to yahoo server :
ping scs.msg.yahoo.com
PING scs.msg.yahoo.com (76.13.15.36) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from cs108.msg.ac4.yahoo.com (76.13.15.36): icmp_seq=1 ttl=48 time=638 ms
64 bytes from cs108.msg.ac4.yahoo.com (76.13.15.36): icmp_seq=2 ttl=48 time=628 ms
64 bytes from cs108.msg.ac4.yahoo.com (76.13.15.36): icmp_seq=3 ttl=48 time=659 ms
64 bytes from cs108.msg.ac4.yahoo.com (76.13.15.36): icmp_seq=4 ttl=48 time=817 ms
64 bytes from cs108.msg.ac4.yahoo.com (76.13.15.36): icmp_seq=5 ttl=48 time=659 ms
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netstat :
tcp 0 0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:49159 76.13.15.32:5050 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:52467 68.180.217.8:5050 ESTABLISHED
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ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: pidgin 1:2.5.5-1ubuntu8.1
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686

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