Bug 72769

Summary:	Cannot enable Gaim's Remote Control plugin because socket in use
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Christopher Covington <covracer>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gaim Bugs Crew <gaim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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) gentoo-dev

2004-11-29 12:09:57 UTC

What version of gaim?

Comment 2 Don Seiler (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

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.