When I try to enable the Remote Control plugin for gaim I get the following error: Unable to open socket Falied to assign /tmp/gaim_chris.0 to a socket: Address already in use Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Gaim's Preferences, go to the Plugins section 2. Click the check box beside the Remote Control plugin Actual Results: A pretty error message pops up displaying the following: Unable to open socket Falied to assign /tmp/gaim_chris.0 to a socket: Address already in use Expected Results: The gaim-remote should instead be now usable. Auto-Reconnect, Extended Preferences, Festival, Gaim-Encryption and System Tray Icon plugins all work fine.
What version of gaim?
For now, shut down gaim, manually remove /tmp/gaim_*.0 and restart. Should work then. Upstream developers acknowledge they should work around it better.
I'm running gaim version 1.0.3. Deleting /tmp/gaim_* and restarting got it working.