Having Problem logging in with Yahoo! on Pidgin IM ?
Having problem / issue while trying to log into your Yahoo! Account through Pidgin ? Look like Hanged when attempting to log in ?
The Reasons for this is as follows.
Yahoo began upgrading their servers at some point recently to phase out the old Yahoo Messenger 6 client. In effect, they want to force users of older software to update to the current client. Whether this is a good thing or not depends on your perspective. From Yahoo’s point of view, I’m sure this is an excellent move, as it should make their server software simpler (speak one less protocol, one less auth scheme, etc.) and reduce their support load (fewer client versions to deal with). Where it became a problem for them is that at the same time, they started requiring protocol version 15 clients to speak the version 15 authentication scheme, which Pidgin never implemented. Since Pidgin still spoke version 13′s authentication, this cut Pidgin off entirely.
The Solution is as follows
And the Solution is quite simple , Just upgrade to Pidgin 2.5.7 from your Version , this latest Version (Although 2.5.8 is out now) Solves the issue of authentication.
But Even after Upgrade Pidgin is having problem logging in ? If you have the problem the do as follows.
- Change your Yahoo account’s Pager Server field (located on the Advanced tab when editing the account) to ‘scsa.msg.yahoo.com’, especially if you previously read this document
- If you’re crashing when you connect your Yahoo account, again, set your Pager Server to ‘scsa.msg.yahoo.com’ and try to log in again. If you can’t edit your account, you have two options:
- Run Pidgin from a shell (command prompt). ‘pidgin -n’ will cause Pidgin to start up in an Offline status, thus allowing you to edit your accounts. Set the Pager Server as described above.
- If you know the name of the server that you entered in the Pager Server field, you can change this manually. Locate your .purple directory (covered in the FAQ!). In this directory is a file called accounts.xml. Open this file with an editor (Wordpad on Windows; any text editor will do on Linux and other Unix-like systems) and find the server name you entered. Change this value and save the file. Start Pidgin and you should be fine.
- If you upgraded by compiling Pidgin yourself, make sure you removed your distribution’s existing libpurple package (for Ubuntu and Debian users this is libpurple0; for RedHat/Fedora users it should be libpurple). Then run ‘sudo ldconfig’ (or ‘ldconfig’ if you have a root shell already) and try again.
- If you’re behind a proxy server that proxies HTTP connections but not HTTPS connections, and you have to explicitly configure the proxy in Pidgin, you’re probably not going to have any luck. Our current proxy code can’t handle this kind of configuration. Sorry.
- If you’re on Windows and you get errors about a corrupted installer, clear your browser’s cache, then restart your browser and try to download again.
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