Hi,
this morning gaim worked normally, now I cant connect. I have installed and reinstalled the package but the situation is the same - I cant connect. May be this is not the package

Do you have internet connectivity?

Yes I have. Kopete is working my ADSL is OK. It really is strange. I have removed everything connected to gaim with YAST and then reinstalled it many times, but no results???

In konqueror view your home directory /home/{name}. Select the View text menu and click "Show Hidden Files". You will see lots of hidden directories including ".gaim". .gaim has the configuration parameters and other items of user customization of gaim. It isn't deleted when you uninstall with YaST. Delete the .gaim directory and reinstall. A new default .gaim is created. You will need to set the account information again.

Thanks fragos. It works.

And fragos, I have also solved a problem which did not allow me to run kooka. When the problem with gaim aroused I was not able to run kooka. Now, after reinstalling gaim and kooka everything is working as before.

thanks again.

Hello,

same problem for me, after update to OpenSuse 10 I can not login with gaim. Kopete is working fine.

In gaim I just get the 'login' window but nothing happens if I press login. Updating and deleteing the .gaim directory does not work for me ... Is there a logfile I can check to see what's going wrong ?

Best regards, Norbert

Norbert,

When an application is started from the command line in a Konsole/terminal window, error messages are logged to the Konsole that might otherwise not be seen. Open a KDE/GUI terminal window and enter "gaim". Gaim still runs as a GUI window. When you close or exit the terminal window Gaim will also be terminated. There are a number of Linux logs but as a rule anything that goes in a log is also reported on the command line.

Hi,

thanks for your answer, but I already did it. I started it in the console but there was no output and of course no errors shown...

Gaim is starting as normal but I can not login, even not with autologin feature.

Ok, I saw there is a debug option and it shows only the following errors:
Error reading pounces
and
Error reading statuses

But that should not matter. Pressing 'login' does not show any output ...

Best regards, Norbert

Norbert,

I'm not an expert on Gaim but use it to "Google Talk" to my daughter in NH. Pounce is a feature in gaim that you set up in the Tools menu. I'm not sure what it does -- haven't used it. Have you configured a "pounce"? This is what I call grasping at straws time.

Hi,

do not think it is related to pounces because gaime worked fine before updating to OpenSuse and I never used any pounces before. Gaim is just running on my computer without any use to me since I am always offline :-)

Thanks again for your help, Norbert

I don't think the error message with the pounces has any relevance to you not being able to login. If you create a pounce a pounces.xml file will be made in your home/(username)/.gaim directory so if you haven't set any pounces there will be no file there, hence it not being able to open the file and you get the error message. So that shouldn't be your problem, after you click login, what happens? no error boxes pop up or anything?

nothing, believe me, there is no reaction !

:-( Norbert

Weird, ok, on the Gaim website FAQs I came across this:

"If Gaim is not crashing, but is just sitting there not displaying anything, try turning off anything else that might be using the sound device (ie xmms) and then starting Gaim. If this fixes the problem, it is a libao issue, not a Gaim issue, and can be worked around by the use of esd or arts."

maybe that could be your problem

AdamCo,

I can see your Gaim experience is better than mine. I have 10.0 as well and rely on YaST for configuration. Sound works well on my machine, except for Gaim. The only sound I can configure Gaim to make is the console beep. Am I missing something here or is there some Linux magic required?

Do you have your music or video player running at the time or just opened? It could be that only one application can have access to your soundcard at a time. I have that problem with firefox all the time, If I play some music and I open firefox, even if I stop the music I won't get sound.

In the gaim FAQs I found this:

"How do I get sound to work correctly?

Gaim uses libao to play sounds. Playing sounds directly through esound or arts is no longer supported.

Libao is a cross-platform library that allows programs to output PCM audio data to the native audio devices on a wide variety of platforms. It currently supports OSS (Open Sound System), ESD (ESounD), ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture), Sun audio system (used in Solaris, OpenBSD, and NetBSD), aRts (Analog Realtime Synthesizer).

To compile Gaim with support for libao you need libao-devel and audiofile-devel. To use libao you need libao and audiofile. If you do not wish to install these packages you can also just change your sound playing method in preferences to Command and use esdplay %s or artsplay %s."

I haven't messed with the sounds much.