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04-03-2009, 10:52 PM
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Registered: Aug 2008
Location: Alexandria, Egypt
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.10
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Yahoo wont login on ubuntu 9.04 beta using pidgin
I have just installed ubuntu 9.04 beta its great and really perfect but its not 100% okay, one of the things that I have met is the yahoo not working on pidgin, I have tried other protocols like msn it works great but yahoo wont login at all I have tried my other yahoo account but the same results .
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04-04-2009, 04:53 PM
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Registered: Apr 2008
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Is your firewall enabled? Perhaps the port for MSN, AIM, etc. is open but not for Yahoo... Its probably a long shot but would be an easy fix if it is the problem.
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04-04-2009, 07:34 PM
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Registered: Aug 2008
Location: Alexandria, Egypt
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.10
Posts: 158
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I have tried to fully stop my firewall but nothing happened, I always open the yahoo and msn ports from my modem (router).
thanks eomalley for posting me  |
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04-05-2009, 03:40 PM
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Registered: Aug 2008
Location: Alexandria, Egypt
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.10
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Then I have tried Empathy and the same results.
and when I login by any of the web messengers http://www.iloveim.com/ it login like a charm,
any suggestions will be great |
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04-16-2009, 07:58 AM
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Registered: Aug 2008
Location: Alexandria, Egypt
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.10
Posts: 158
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This can be fixed by changing the port from 5050 to 20
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