Bug 72769 – Cannot enable Gaim's Remote Control plugin because socket in use

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Christopher Covington 2004-11-28 15:02:26 UTC]

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.

[Comment 1 Don Seiler (RETIRED) 2004-11-29 12:09:57 UTC]

What version of gaim?

[Comment 2 Don Seiler (RETIRED) 2004-11-29 12:12:21 UTC]

For now, shut down gaim,  manually remove /tmp/gaim_*.0 and restart.  Should work then.

Upstream developers acknowledge they should work around it better.

[Comment 3 Christopher Covington 2004-11-29 16:04:02 UTC]

I'm running gaim version 1.0.3. Deleting /tmp/gaim_* and restarting got it working.