Bug 30571

Summary:	GAIM and centericq > Yahoo clients unable to authenticate user password
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	armand hortolomei <armand>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	PPC Porters <ppc>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	PPC
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description armand hortolomei 2003-10-07 07:54:40 UTC

Logging in to the yahoo messenger network using GAIM or centericq compiled for ppc architecture returns:
Username and Password mismatch (centericq-4.9.7 version )
Password incorrect (gaim-0.70-r2 version )

there seems to be a problem storing the password string (i dunno... im just a phreakin newbie) and thus sending the yahoo server some bogus string.

what can be done?

Comment 1 Charles Goodwin 2003-10-07 09:19:10 UTC

This is a gaim/centericq issue.  Yahoo! are making protocol changes to try
and eliminate 3rd party clients.

Sadly, there is little that can be done about it, and anything that can be
done relates directly to gaim/centericq/other-yahoo!-im-clients.  This is
not a Gentoo issue.

This bug should be marked as closed/invalid.

Comment 2 Don Seiler (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-10-09 12:34:28 UTC

I disagree with Charles, this is definitely a bug.  This happens for me on
gaim on ppc, but for gaim on x86 it works fine.  There is something specific
to the ppc architecture that is causing problems I think.

Comment 3 armand hortolomei 2003-10-10 03:31:00 UTC

I also wanted to tell charles the fact that both packages (centericq,gaim)
have no problems on x86 machines.
so that i think its an architecture related problem.
should the ebuild/package developers be in charge for remedying that problem?
or is it gentoo-ppc-developer stuff?
i dont know. i just have 1 yahoo im contact so its not such a big deal for
me.
but i think it cant be such a huge problem with the ebuilds considering the
fact that both work perfectly on x86.

Comment 4 armand hortolomei 2003-10-11 02:44:40 UTC

the new version of gaim : 0.71, has obviously eradicated that problem
centericq hasnt remedied that bug.
it seems that it was charles who was right after all...

Comment 5 Don Seiler (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-10-13 08:58:52 UTC

Yes I confirm that it is fixed in 0.71.

0.70 had the yahoo fixes originally.  0.71 did some other login logic with
it as well.

So yes I would recommend closing this bug as CANTFIX or INVALID.

Comment 6 Luca Barbato gentoo-dev

2003-10-24 19:06:14 UTC

Marked invalid
was an upstream issue and got solved upstream