FS#24150 - [pidgin or libpurple] Waiting for network connection
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Opened by Green (The_Green_Arrow) - Saturday, 07 May 2011, 19:37 GMT
Last edited by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Sunday, 08 May 2011, 20:19 GMT
Opened by Green (The_Green_Arrow) - Saturday, 07 May 2011, 19:37 GMT
Last edited by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Sunday, 08 May 2011, 20:19 GMT
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Description:
Since latest updates of pidgin and libpurple : upgraded libpurple (2.7.11-1 -> 2.7.11-2) upgraded pidgin (2.7.11-1 -> 2.7.11-2) I've got this strange behaviour in pidgin : http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/original/1304796807.gif Downgrading to 2.7.11-1 fixes this issue (so this is definitely a packaging issue). Steps to reproduce: * upgrade pidgin and libpurple |
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Closed by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Sunday, 08 May 2011, 20:19 GMT
Reason for closing: Not a bug
Sunday, 08 May 2011, 20:19 GMT
Reason for closing: Not a bug
you are using networkmanager to manage your networks but not version 0.8.999?
- what I don't understand is why this issue occurs between minor upgrade (there shouldn't be that much difference between pkgrel -1 and pkgrel -2). I mean, pidgin should adapt to the network configuration without any issue like that.
- That being said, adding -f argument to pidgin solves this issue. -f : Try to be online even if the network is reported (by Windows, or NetworkManager on Linux) to be unavailable.
- I do not want to upgrade to Gnome 3 (not until Gnome 3.2 in september). And even if I would, I couldn't because I have an ATI card with fglrx driver. On a laptop, open source drivers are still far from being as good as fglrx (power management, vaapi, etc.)
That's why I've frozen almost every gnome 2 related packages (with my own dedicated local repository).
I've tried to upgrade network manager to the newer version, but there are some errors then (some undefined symbols).
pidgin 2.7.11-1 was compiled against networkmanager 0.8.3
pidgin 2.7.11-2 was recompiled against new networkmanager 0.9 rc because libnm-glib.so had a soname bump from
libnm-glib.so.1 to libnm-glib.so.4 therefor a rebuilt was needed
if you don't want to upgrade to gnome 3 then you should stop upgrading or deal with bugs like this because YOU choose to ignore and cherry picks updates.
i don't understand why you asked for a reopen. mostly to talk? i don't have anything to do on this issue. everything works.
what can you do is to switch to wicd or netcfg
I just wanted to reopen to add some comments (mainly about the -f workaround) for other users.
I've tried wicd and it does not work well with my r8192se realtek wireless card . Don't know about netcfg, I'll give it a try.
I know I should not upgrade anything that is related to Gnome, but I did not know pidgin was so much dependent on gnome.