Bug 128894

Summary:	Gaim can't connect to SILC network if system users comment field is empty
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	David Maus <maus.david>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Other
URL:	http://lists.silcnet.org/pipermail/silc-devel/2005-July/001681.html
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description David Maus 2006-04-05 04:37:51 UTC

Gaim 1.5.0, an instant messaging client that supports the SILC network protocol can't connect to silc servers if the Gaim-account for silc is created while the system users comment field (i.e. the one you modify with "usermod -c") is empty. The connection aborts with "malformed realname".

This issue does NOT occure if the comment field was set while creating the Gaim- account and was set to "" *after* creating the account in Gaim because Gaim takes the comment fields content only on account creation and stores the value in its configfile. 

As far as I understood the problem (see URL privied as URL) it is some kind of incorrect UTF8- string handling with silc - but I am absolutely not sure if this should be treated as a bug in silc-toolkit or a bug in Gaim or if it even *is* a bug at all.

So I suggest to modify the ebuild of gaim 1.5.0 so it gives a short information about this issue after emerging.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-04-05 04:58:32 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 110327 ***