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Bug 60550 - Gaim 0.81-r1 cannot add MSN buddy icons because of missing directory.
Summary: Gaim 0.81-r1 cannot add MSN buddy icons because of missing directory.
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gaim Bugs Crew
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Reported: 2004-08-16 06:00 UTC by Gaute Hope
Modified: 2004-08-23 08:53 UTC (History)
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Description Gaute Hope 2004-08-16 06:00:12 UTC
When i try to add a buddy icon(the image was of jpg format) for an MSN account I get the error:
(14:40:37) buddyicon: Converting buddy icon to png as /home/drzap/.gaim/icons/f9530a16
(14:40:37) buddyicon: Could not convert icon to usable format: Could not open 
Comment 1 Gaute Hope 2004-08-16 06:00:12 UTC
When i try to add a buddy icon(the image was of jpg format) for an MSN account I get the error:
(14:40:37) buddyicon: Converting buddy icon to png as /home/drzap/.gaim/icons/f9530a16
(14:40:37) buddyicon: Could not convert icon to usable format: Could not open «/home/drzap/.gaim/icons/f9530a16» for writing: No such file or directory


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the accounts window (Ctrl + A)
2. Select or add a MSN account
3. Select Open under User Options
4. Select an image and open it

Actual Results:  
Nothing happends if the account is only being modified, if it is being created
the window closes without the account being added. And I get the error:
(14:40:37) buddyicon: Converting buddy icon to png as
/home/drzap/.gaim/icons/f9530a16
(14:40:37) buddyicon: Could not convert icon to usable format: Could not open
«/home/drzap/.gaim/icons/f9530a16» for writing: No such file or directory

Expected Results:  
Added the image.

Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0,
2.6.5-gentoo-r1)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.2/share/config
/usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/Gentoo http://mirror.gentoo.no/
ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo
http://ds.thn.htu.se/linux/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X alsa apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif
gnome gpm gtk gtk2 guile imlib ipv6 jpeg ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif
mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python
quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Comment 2 Gaute Hope 2004-08-16 06:01:31 UTC
Didn't find this at the bugsubmit page.

To fix it i just created the dir: ~/.gaim/icons then it works fine.
Comment 3 Don Seiler (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-08-23 08:45:44 UTC
AFAIK the icons directory should be created as part of gaim core.  Can you back up your ~/.gaim directory and move it, then start up gaim so it will create your .gaim dir and see if it creates ~/.gaim/icons right away.
Comment 4 Don Seiler (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-08-23 08:53:18 UTC
This was definitely a bug upstream.  It has been fixed in their CVS and will be out with 0.82 later this week.

Normally that icons dir was created when you viewed other buddy icons.  If you try to set your own icon before viewing others, that directory would not have been created.