Micha Feigin wrote:
You don't say what version of Debian/gaim you're using; I know that Yahoo tends to do things behind the scenes that often breaks gaim until the gaim developers work around the issue. I've seen this error when that happens; then I wait a few days/weeks, apt-get upgrade and get a new version of gaim, and then gaim starts working again. (I'm running sid.)I just tried connecting with gaim to a yahoo messenger account for the first time and I can't get it working. as far as I can tell I have a profile (I have a yahoo email and it seems to me that I activated the messenger profile). When I try to connect I get the error that the user has been disconnected with an error "unable to read" Any ideas?
gaim was working just fine for me about a week ago, but now it won't connect; this time the error is different than I've ever seen before; it says "incorrect password". So I logged into the web browser-based version, and logged in just fine with my username/password, so I assume Yahoo has done something new to break third-party IM clients such as gaim.
You might try the web-based version (via my.yahoo.com), or you can download/install Yahoo's client for Linux (ymessenger - works fine; I like gaim slightly better, and I prefer it over ymessenger because it's open source), or perhaps try another 3rd party client, or download the newest gaim source and compile it yourself and hope the problem is fixed in there (or do your own reverse-engineering and fix it).
Sorry I didn't have a quick fix for gaim for you. -- Kent