Pidgin not getting network manager state changes

sdennie · 2011-05-25 02:22:14

On a fully updated system, pidgin will properly detect the state of the network connection on startup but doesn't notice network state changes. So, if I start it with the network down and then use nm-applet to connect to something, it still shows "Waiting for network connection" at the bottom of the Buddy List window. I'm running with xfce and no display manager and have tried/observed a bunch of things so, I'll just list them out:

- dbus is started before networkmanager in /etc/rc.conf
- Network manager works fine and has the wireless connection up before/as the desktop appears
- I'm starting xfce from .xinitrc with "exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --exit-with-session startxfce4"
- Starting pidgin with -d shows that it's definitely not noticing the state changes.
- Pidgin->Help->Build Information shows network manager support.
- dbus-monitor doesn't show the network state changes but, dbus-monitor --system does (not sure if that's normal or not)
- I stepped through the arch wikis on dbus, network manager, xfce and pidgin multiple times and everything is/was fine
- Google is turning up similar problems but none within the last few years or with standard arch packages
- I did some basic sanity checks like, "find ~ ! -user sdennie" and everything looks fine

I'm not really sure where to go from here so, any suggestions would be appreciated. I don't know of any other applications that detect network manager state changes so, the one thing I'm not sure of is whether or not the problem is isolated to pidgin.

wonder · 2011-05-25 08:02:55

bug in pidgin, should be fix in the next pidgin version.

http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2011/05/24/ … -and-tinc/

foutrelis · 2011-05-25 08:03:30

This appears to have been fixed upstream: http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/13505. I'll include the patch in our package.

Thanks for the detailed explanation, but consider using the bug tracker in the future.

sdennie · 2011-05-25 21:15:55

foutrelis wrote:

This appears to have been fixed upstream: http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/13505. I'll include the patch in our package.
Thanks for the detailed explanation, but consider using the bug tracker in the future.

Works great now, thanks. I'm new to Arch and wasn't sure if I'd botched something or if it was a bug in pidgin.

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#1 2011-05-25 02:22:14

Pidgin not getting network manager state changes

#2 2011-05-25 08:02:55

Re: Pidgin not getting network manager state changes

#3 2011-05-25 08:03:30

Re: Pidgin not getting network manager state changes

#4 2011-05-25 21:15:55

Re: Pidgin not getting network manager state changes

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