| Empathy IM and ICQ Anybody using Empathy as their chat program? It's supposed to work with multiple protocols including ICQ but no matter what I do I can't get it to connect. Have tried Pidgin and it works fine.
Any idea why Empathy won't connect? |
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salahx
join:2001-12-03
Saint Louis, MO | I use Empathy (on Gentoo) regularly and it works just fine.
Empathy is just a front-end to Telepathy, and you need to have the appropriate Telepathy modules installed for the chat protocol(s) in question. |
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| said by salahx:I use Empathy (on Gentoo) regularly and it works just fine.
Empathy is just a front-end to Telepathy, and you need to have the appropriate Telepathy modules installed for the chat protocol(s) in question.
Do you know which particular Telepathy modules are needed? I've checked Synaptic and a heap of modules are already installed, but there are some others that are not. I don't see anything there that has ICQ in the name (or refers to ICQ in the description). |
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 MaxoYour tax dollars at work.Premium,VIP
join:2002-11-04
Tallahassee, FL | reply to Justakiwi
If ICQ is an available protocol within the Empathy GUI, then that should mean you have the appropriate module installed.
Could you paste what settings you are using and what the error is you are receiving? |
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| I set up my ICQ account in Empathy with the default settings:
Character set: ISO-8859-1
Server: slogin.icq.com
Port: 5190
My ICQ number and password are correct (they work fine in Pidgin)
It should start and connect automatically on start up - it does start and attempt to connect, but never does. It just sits there forever trying to connect - no error message. Doesn't matter how long I wait it never connects. |
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salahx
join:2001-12-03
Saint Louis, MO | reply to Justakiwi
You might be able to get some clues with this:
pkill telepathy-haze
HAZE_PERSIST=1 HAZE_DEBUG=all /usr/libexec/telepathy-haze 2>&1 | tee haze.log
There's also a debug option under the Help menu in Empathy as well.
Oddly enough I have having problems with MSN, and all that I needed to do was kill telepathy-butterfly and let Empathy restart it by reconnecting. |
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MaxoYour tax dollars at work.Premium,VIP
join:2002-11-04
Tallahassee, FL | I have the telepathy-butterfly issue from time-to-time as well. As you state, killing telepathy-butterfly and asking Empathy to reconnect always resolves it. |
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said by salahx:You might be able to get some clues with this:
pkill telepathy-haze
HAZE_PERSIST=1 HAZE_DEBUG=all /usr/libexec/telepathy-haze 2>&1 | tee haze.log
There's also a debug option under the Help menu in Empathy as well. Oddly enough I have having problems with MSN, and all that I needed to do was kill telepathy-butterfly and let Empathy restart it by reconnecting. Was that supposed to create a log somewhere? I don't have a /usr/libexec directory.
I started Empathy which started trying to connect as usual, then I ran your command above at which point Empathy immediately disconnected, then started reconnecting again. But it still didn't ever get there. |
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 donoreoPremium
join:2002-05-30
North York, ON | reply to Justakiwi
I tired it under Ubuntu a few months ago and could not get it to work either (with google talk, not ICQ). |
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salahx
join:2001-12-03
Saint Louis, MO | reply to Justakiwi
Well its under /usr/libexec under Gentoo. Maybe under Ubuntu its somewhere else...
You also need to make sure Empathy isn't started before you run those commands, then start Empathy afterwards. |
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| OK, it's an ICQ issue. I just registered for a Jabber account and successfully logged in with Empathy, using that account. So Empathy is working but for some reason doesn't like ICQ. |
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 rexbinaryMod KingPremium
join:2005-01-26
Plano, TX | reply to Justakiwi
NM |
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