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Bug 128894 - Gaim can't connect to SILC network if system users comment field is empty
Summary: Gaim can't connect to SILC network if system users comment field is empty
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 110327
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Other
: High minor (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
URL: http://lists.silcnet.org/pipermail/si...
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Reported: 2006-04-05 04:37 UTC by David Maus
Modified: 2006-04-05 04:58 UTC (History)
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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 ***