Empathy and facebook chat. Impossible to connect

alexduf · 2013-10-13 04:28:56

It's been a few months since I haven't been able to connect with empathy to facebook.
After having upgraded my distro to gnome 3.10 I started to search about this issue.
I removed everything in my profile that was looking like "empathy", "telepathy", "gable" and "wocky".
I also removed useless passwords and auth tokens from seahorse.

After a fresh reboot, I'm still unable to connect to facebook.
When I add a new account in GOA, it seems to work, but as soon as wocky tries to connect, it fails.

Here is my telepathy-debugging log : http://pastebin.com/yEYELNQc
(auth token has been voluntary altered)

sasl_status_changed_cb: SASL failed: WOCKY_AUTH_ERROR_FAILURE (#6): Authentication failed: not-authorized

Any insight would be greatly appreciated !
Thanks !

Last edited by alexduf (2013-10-13 04:30:52)

LordChaos73 · 2013-10-13 09:42:50

Same issue here...not sure why it fails though.

firefixmaarten · 2013-10-13 11:38:40

Also having this issue, just installed gnome, seems to be improving as far as i can see .

This is a very irritating problem. The message integration is a good feature.

Darkcloud · 2013-10-13 12:45:45

AFAIK, FB changed the authentication scheme: http://askubuntu.com/a/339662

I really liked the chat feature (in fact that's the only thing I use FB for - but having to leave a browser window/tab open for that...? meh!)
but I guess we'll have to wait for a fix or use another client (which isn't an option for people like me, who hate using more than one or maybe two different clients).

desaparecido · 2013-10-13 17:16:23

hi, in Kopete (kde desktop) is the same problem. Actually, if I want use FB chat with other accounts like gtalk, skype, etc, I use finch, is in console mode but is really usefull, works well with FB, or if I want GUI client like kopete I don't use my FB account (I hate to have my browser open to chat ). Is not a solution but is an "alternate" provisory solution

alexduf · 2013-10-13 17:27:20

Ok given what Darkcloud said, it seems to be a server side issue.
I guess we have to wait for a nice developer to submit a patch for us

Here is the bug https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57260

I've added a new comment with more informations.

Michael Catanzaro · 2013-10-14 03:54:55

See also https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707747

alexduf · 2013-10-14 03:58:54

Hm, yes, the second bug seems more accurate.

alexduf · 2013-11-23 05:40:47

It seems to be working again. Can you guys confirm ?

Last edited by alexduf (2013-11-23 05:41:02)

Michael Catanzaro · 2013-11-23 05:56:55

Yes, it's fixed in Empathy 3.10.2.

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Empathy and facebook chat. Impossible to connect

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