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#1 2008-04-19 17:09:12
- ybotspawn
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Pidgin only connects as Root
Hey folks, ok so heres the deal up until a week or so ago, pidgin worked fine. Now it still opens, but doesn't connect. When I run it from root @ the terminal it opens up and connects perfectly. Any advice on how I go about troubleshooting this? I'm in the network group... I mad some changes a week ago but it sums up to gpasswd -a %username% network and commenting out the start up of netfs and portmap in the deamons of rc.conf..... ANy tests as another user fail. Help? THANKS!!!
Matt
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#2 2008-04-19 17:24:37
- ekerazha
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Re: Pidgin only connects as Root
Strange...
... however, which protocol?
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#3 2008-04-19 17:43:23
- ybotspawn
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Re: Pidgin only connects as Root
thats the weird thing... all of them. Meanwhile I am obviously on the internet, i can ping, browse, blah blah blah
Edit:
Just got my second user account working... it works under another user account AND root, just not mine
Last edited by ybotspawn (2008-04-19 18:01:04)
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why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention. "
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#4 2008-04-19 19:31:39
- aRcHaTe
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Re: Pidgin only connects as Root
thats the weird thing... all of them. Meanwhile I am obviously on the internet, i can ping, browse, blah blah blah
Edit:
Just got my second user account working... it works under another user account AND root, just not mine
pidgin is getting worse..try emesene if u can its getting mutch better
Its a sick world we live in....
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#5 2008-04-19 19:36:58
- bender02
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Re: Pidgin only connects as Root
Check the permissions and ownership on your ~/.purple.
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#6 2008-04-22 17:56:02
- ybotspawn
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Re: Pidgin only connects as Root
Thanks for the help guys, sorry to not get back immediately. I ended up solving this by blowing away my profile ' rm rf .*' from another test user profile and recreating. It wasn't fun but I believe the issue is that there are more than 2 pidgin configuration folders. I must have reset permission or something on one of these folders, but in either case it was annoying.
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why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention. "
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