Chat programs timing out?

Linux_Native · 01-03-2002, 05:53 AM

I installed gyach and curfloo (both yahoo chat clients on linux) , and neither of them seem to be able to verify my login details, therefore I cannot use the programs.

I used setup and disabled the firewall - still no luck.

Neither of the clients reported any errors on installation, and both worked properly on mandrake with no fuss.

Curfloo just "fails to Login" , gyach "times out on connection to edit.yahoo.com" .

Any ideas what may be the problem?

Mik · 01-03-2002, 06:00 AM

The yahoo servers are often very busy. I know the windows client tries several servers to make a connection. It even tries to connect through port 80 if it seems it's getting blocked on the normal ports.
Can you set the server it tries to connect to? I don't remember which servers they are I think the main one is cs.yahoo.com but I think I've seen it connect to something like cs5.yahoo.com before or something like that.
You could try pinging the servers to see if you can even reach them.

Linux_Native · 01-03-2002, 12:30 PM

Ping works ... however if gyach cannot connect to edit.yahoo.com then my guess is it cannot access the internet..... Edit.yahoo.com does login verification (I think), so if it's failing there it isn't getting as far as cs.chat.yahoo.com .

secretlydead · 02-27-2004, 08:32 AM

i downloaded the rpm for gyach and tried to run it...

get dependency errors:

the following are needed:

pygtk=1.99
libgailutil.so.16
libprng12.so.0.1.2.4

does this tell me anything? where do i get these packages?

(using MDK9.1, btw.)