{"id":33,"date":"2009-06-22T11:50:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T16:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.alanporter.com\/2009-06-22\/pidgin-and-yahoo"},"modified":"2009-06-22T11:50:22","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T16:50:22","slug":"pidgin-and-yahoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/22\/pidgin-and-yahoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Pidgin and Yahoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ran into a strange bug with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pidgin.im\/\"><strong>pidgin<\/strong><\/a> where I could not log into Yahoo.  Strace did not shed any light on the problem:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre>\ngettimeofday({1245688276, 23774}, NULL) = 0\nopen(\"\/home\/alan\/.gnome2\/nautilus-sendto\/spool\", O_RDONLY...\nfstat64(7, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...\ngetdents(7, \/* 3 entries *\/, 4096)      = 48\ngetdents(7, \/* 0 entries *\/, 4096)      = 0\nclose(7)                                = 0\nread(3, 0x93c4508, 4096)                = -1 EAGAIN ...\ngettimeofday({1245688276, 24697}, NULL) = 0\npoll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN},...<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Instead, the answer came from a blog post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celticwolf.com\/useful-information\/faqs\/26-pidgin-yahoo\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo changed their login protocol.  Pidgin released an update.  Ubuntu did not propagate the fix, apparently because it was not a security bug, but new functionality.<\/p>\n<p>The pidgin developers have released an Ubuntu package in their PPA (Personal Package Archive).  See the details at the pidgin web site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pidgin.im\/download\/ubuntu\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran into a strange bug with pidgin where I could not log into Yahoo. Strace did not shed any light on the problem: gettimeofday({1245688276, 23774}, NULL) = 0 open(&#8220;\/home\/alan\/.gnome2\/nautilus-sendto\/spool&#8221;, O_RDONLY&#8230; fstat64(7, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, &#8230; getdents(7, \/* 3 entries *\/, 4096) = 48 getdents(7, \/* 0 entries *\/, 4096) = 0 close(7) = 0 read(3, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","count-0","even alt","author-alan","last"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}