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Old 07-08-2005, 11:14 AM   #1
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Gaim?????? whats going on


when i used the original gaim on slack 10.1 when I send a message the windows all close and its gone. So I upgraded to 1.3.1 package and in that package there is no AIM protocal, just napster and a few others????????????? any one know whats up with that

I also tried it from source with 1.4.0 and it killed all the windows again when I send a message.
 
Old 07-08-2005, 11:31 AM   #2
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Do you mean the message window gets dissapeared after you send the message? or the whole gaim shuts down ?

If its the first , then you can disable that in the preferences. If second, then something's wrong.
 
Old 07-08-2005, 11:32 AM   #3
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nope, the whole thing goes away, buddy list and all, I have used gaim on like 5 other distros and never encountered this
 
Old 07-08-2005, 11:39 AM   #4
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just tried adding the tray icon plugin to make sure it was going away completly and it is, the whole thing shuts down when you send a message, you can check peoples away messages and info and all that stuff just cant send messages
Is there something in need to intall some support package?????????/
 
Old 07-08-2005, 12:04 PM   #5
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Try running it from the command line, and watch and see if any errors happen when it crashes or stops working.

As for your question, no, not that i know of. The only dependancy you do need that isn't included by default is the firefox encryption for msn .
 
Old 07-08-2005, 12:19 PM   #6
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I used to have a problem like the one you describe. I ran gaim from the command line. And it showed a permission denied error on I think.:
/tmp/mcop-$USERNAME
To fix it all I did was rm -rf /tmp/mcop-$USERNAME
Seemed to do the trick for me.
 
Old 07-08-2005, 12:26 PM   #7
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Mirari, I don't dislike your method to get rid of the usual
/tmp/mcop-$USERNAME permission denied problem, but
you could fix it gently with :
chown -R $USERNAME:users /tmp/mcop-$USERNAME
 
Old 07-08-2005, 12:33 PM   #8
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Hmmm I did what you guys said and loaded it from the prompt and you were right!!!!
it was the mcop thing, but removing the directory didnt do anyting, becuase when I tried again it still did the same thing just made the directory again with a new secret cookie file. but still says
/tmp/mcop-root is accessible owned by user

Do u think maybe I need to add new permissions to this directory
 
Old 07-08-2005, 07:26 PM   #9
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My first question would be:

WHY are you using gaim as root?

I'd seriously reccomend you using a non-superuser account for anything other than admin, and then only as a su session from another user, or using su -c 'command'.


Try it as a normal user and see if it works.
 
Old 07-11-2005, 06:25 AM   #10
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Oh that would be becuase its not my computer and i am sopose to be logged in as root, dont ask me I just do what the job tells me.. Even though you know you shouldnt be doing something doesnt mean that your employer cares to hear about best practices in security policy
 
  


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