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dugan

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From: Canada

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 8

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Unable to connect to Windows Live

Strange problem on my fully upgraded Arch system. Seems I'm able to connect to every website except Windows Live.

I can load live.com and see the login form. Attempting to submit the form (in Chrome) results in a timeout, followed by the error message:

"Error 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET): Unknown error."

I can log into to the live.com website from other computers in my house, so there's nothing wrong with my ISP.

Attempting to connect to msn in pidgin results in a long wait, followed by: "Connection error from Notification server: reading error".

Here are the relevant sections from my pidgin -d output:

(00:34:46) util: Writing file /home/dugan/.purple/prefs.xml
(00:35:23) soap: read: Connection reset by peer
(00:35:23) soap: Received secure request.
(00:35:28) msn: servconn 000 read error, len: 0, errno: 11, error: Resource temporarily unavailable
(00:35:28) msn: Connection error from Notification server (64.4.61.86): Reading error
(00:35:28) connection: Connection error on 0x19aca00 (reason: 0 description: Connection error from Notification server:
Reading error)
(00:35:28) account: Disconnecting account [REDACTED] (0x1535640)
(00:35:28) connection: Disconnecting connection 0x19aca00
(00:35:28) msn: destroy the OIM 0x19b01a0
(00:35:28) msn: destroy httpconn (0x19b0e90)
(00:35:28) connection: Destroying connection 0x19aca00
(00:35:34) util: Writing file accounts.xml to directory /home/dugan/.purple

My Pidgin msn connection settings are all at defaults: server: messenger.hotmail.com; port: 1863; use HTTP method: no; http method server: gateway.messenger.hotmail.com; Proxy type: Use Global Proxy Settings.

On my Slackware box, in the same room of my house, Pidgin has the exact same settings and has no trouble connecting to msn.

This problem has persisted at least since yesterday (when I noticed it).

What's going on?

BTW, I should mention that I had successfully used pidgin on Arch Linux just a week ago, with a 2.6.33.7 kernel and a TL-WN321G wifi dongle. Here is photographic proof. Now I have a 2.6.35-ARCH kernel and a TP-Link TL-WN722N, and live.com is not working.

Last edited by dugan (2010-10-02 08:00:17)

bsdson.tw

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From: Taiwan

Registered: 2005-05-06

Posts: 161

Re: Unable to connect to Windows Live

I have the same issue.
can not connect to MSN since last upgrade on yesterday.
have no clue...
-----------------------edit------------------------------------------
I was using telepathy-butterfly as the backend to connect to MSN,
and it failed.
but if I changed to telepathy-haze (which use the same backend as Pidgin), it works.

Last edited by bsdson.tw (2010-10-22 03:51:26)