Could not initiate GoogleTalkPlugin connection

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com>]

In order to get the video chat facility in gmail chat, I downloaded the 
plugin from http://www.google.com/chat/video?hl=en . The file name is 
google-talkplugin_current_i386.deb .

$dpkg -l google\* | grep ^ii
ii  google-talkplugin            2.0.6.0-1                    Google Talk 
Plugin

However, when I start gmail in iceweasel (3.5.16-6), the console screen is 
full of the following errors


028:683] Warning(clientchannel.cc:553): Unreadable or no port file.  Could 
not initiate GoogleTalkPlugin connection
[028:684] Warning(clientchannel.cc:396): Could not initiate GoogleTalkPlugin 
connection
[028:684] Waiting for GoogleTalkPlugin to start...

Has anyone got the google talk  plugin working in Debian? Any 
ideas/suggestion/comments are most welcome.

thanks
-- 
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/