Hoary / kernel 2.6.9: Gaim cannot connect to AIM/ICQ?

[Klaus Alexander Seistrup]

Sure enough...  I just rebooted in Linux 2.6.8, and now GAIM can
connect to AIM and ICQ again.

What is it in Linux 2.6.9 that is so different from 2.6.8 that (1)
GAIM cannot connect to AIM/ICQ, and (2) ntpd cannot start from init?

I'm baffled...

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 14:15:37 +0100, Klaus Alexander Seistrup
<kseistrup at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> After installing Warty from the install cd a few weeks ago, I almost
> immediately upgraded to Hoary.  And except for a few instabilities
> (mainly Python woes), everything was fine until a couple a days ago
> when I upped the kernel from 2.6.8 to 2.6.9¹.  Now my gaim can no
> longer connect to AIM and ICQ (Jabber, MSN and Yahoo are fine,
> though), and FireFox cannot reach www.netscape.net.
> 
> First I thought I had made a mistake in my firewall rules, but even
> when I clear the iptables, and even when I disable ECN, I still cannot
> connect to those sites.  The sites are still pingable, though.
> 
> Next I thought about the TCP Window Scaling problem², but I thought
> that problem had been corrected in 2.6.9?  Also, the
> tcp_default_win_scale pseudo file that the article on LWN is talking
> about, doesn't exist in my /proc/sys/net,
> so I don't really know how to disable TCP window scaling...
> 
> Does anyone else have the same problem?  Or, better yet:  Does anyone
> know how to solve my problem?

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Klaus Alexander Seistrup
SubZeroNet · Copenhagen · Denmark