Bug 98841 – gaim-1.3.1: gaim-remote seems to do nothing

• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Stephen Guerrera 2005-07-12 19:43:24 UTC]

The gaim-remote plugin seems to be not working in gaim-1.3.1.  The plugin loads
as normal, however, from the command line, if you execute  

>gaim-remote uri 'aim:goim?screenname=Penguin'

a new im window to the buddy with the name of Penguin should appear.  Instead,
the application just returns without any sort of message and the window does not
appear.  When attempting to run gaim-remote without the plugin loaded, the
application returns with

>gaim-remote uri 'aim:goim?screenname=Penguin'
Gaim not running (on session 0)
Is the "Remote Control" plugin loaded?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge gain-1.3.1
2. enable the gaim-remote plugin
3. execute "gaim-remote uri 'aim:goim?screenname=Penguin'"

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens

Expected Results:  
A new im window should open

>emerge info
Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.5-r0,
2.6.12-gentoo-r4 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.9
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo
http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo
http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distributions/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acpi alsa berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cjk crypt
curl dvd dvdr eds esd fam firefox flac font-server fortran gdbm gif gpm
gstreamer gtk guile howl imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 java jp2 jpeg junit libwww
lzw lzw-tiff mad mono mozilla mp3 mysql nas ncurses nls nptl nptlonly offensive
ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam perl png python readline samba sdl sqlite ssl tcpd
tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales vorbis xine xml
xml2 xmms xpm xrandr xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

[Comment 1 Don Seiler (RETIRED) 2005-08-24 11:15:59 UTC]

Sorry for the delay, is this still happening with gaim-1.5.0?

[Comment 2 Stephen Guerrera 2005-10-15 14:36:18 UTC]

Sorry, I've been away from linux for a while.  This problem still exists in 1.5.0

[Comment 3 Kathryn Kulick (RETIRED) 2006-07-06 12:07:00 UTC]

Is this still an issue?

[Comment 4 Stephen Guerrera 2006-07-06 17:22:14 UTC]

I just tested it and it is still occuring with Gaim-1.5.0

[Comment 5 Pacho Ramos 2007-02-04 14:28:38 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> I just tested it and it is still occuring with Gaim-1.5.0
> 

Try with gaim-2.0beta6

Good luck!

[Comment 6 Olivier Crete (RETIRED) 2007-05-01 03:55:45 UTC]

is it still broken with net-im/pidgin ?