For the last two days, I have been unable to connect to Yahoo IM using Kopete on both my desktop (amd64) and my netbook (x86). The netbook dual boots w/ WinXP, and YIM connects without a hitch. I tried uninstalling Kopete, emerge --depclean, and reemerging Kopete in case there was something I missed after a forced -kdeprefix rebuild today. Still no luck. When I run it from a konsole terminal and attempt to change my status to "Online," I get the following output: gregg@bianchi ~ $ kopete Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing. Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing. Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing. gregg@bianchi ~ $ Object::connect: No such signal ClientStream::disconnected() Object::connect: (receiver name: 'yahooclient') Transfer ACCEPTED by: LoginTask Transfer ACCEPTED by: LoginTask Reproducible: Always emerge --info: Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.10.1-r0, 2.6.30-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q6600_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:15:01 +0000 distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [enabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p24 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.8-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.2-r1 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r3 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.0 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2, 1.11 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.29 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs" DISTDIR="/mnt/nfs_portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distcc distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://ftp.twaren.net/Linux/Gentoo/" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j12" PKGDIR="/mnt/nfs_portage/packages" PORTAGE_COMPRESS="gzip" PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS="-9" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/mnt/nfs_portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amarok amd64 amd64codecs asf audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cdr cli cracklib crypt ctype cups dbus dirac dlloader dri dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread emerald encode faac faad ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran frontendonly ftp g77 gdbm gif gstreamer hal iconv imap imlib innodb ip4100 joystick jpeg kde kde4 lcms libg++ libwww live lm_sensors logrotate mad maildir matroska midi mime mmx mmxext mng mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nfs nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg oggvorbis openal opengl openmp pcre pdf perl phonon plasma png python qt qt3 quicktime readline rss samba sasl scanner sdl semantic-desktop session smp speex spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 subversion svg sysfs syslog taglib tcpd theora tiff transcode truetype unicode usb v4l vhosts vorbis webkit x264 xcb xine xinerama xml xml2 xorg xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="ptp2" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
KDE bug report https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197104 Seems to indicate others are having problems. ...which references this bug report at the bottom http://trac.adium.im/ticket/12404 Suggests changing the Yahoo server to a specific IP address, 66.163.181.106. Making this change and restarting Kopete appears to have resolved my issue getting connected. At least for now.
Well, I don't think the issue is specific to any version of Kopete. It appears Yahoo is screwing around with their servers and/or protocol. I now have to use cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com, their Canadian server, to get connected to Yahoo Messenger. For more information, check out this forum thread: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/389278
Fixed in 4.2.4-r1.
