Re: [gentoo-user] Belated switchover to pidgin from gaim, fails silently

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Feb 4, 2008 12:50 AM, Mateusz Mierzwinski <mateuszmierzwinski@××.pl>
wrote:

> Kevin O'Gorman pisze:
> > On Feb 3, 2008 3:15 PM, Mateusz Mierzwinski <mateuszmierzwinski@××.pl
> > <mailto:mateuszmierzwinski@××.pl>> wrote:
> >
> >     Kevin O'Gorman pisze:
> >     > I just got around to noticing that my "gaim" IM client is
> >     deprecated.
> >     > I emerged pidgin and it shows up in the menus, but all attempts to
> >     > start it silently fail.
> >     > I tried looking in /var/log/*, for instance, and get nothing.
> >     > Grepping there for 'pidgin' and still nothing.
> >     > Does anybody want to help me guess?
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > --
> >     > Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
> >     Try to change name of directory in Your home - .gaim to someelse.
> Next
> >     try to start pidgin. If it fails, then run emerge --sync && emerge
> >     pidgin -va (set flags for things you need) and next try to run
> >     again. If
> >     renaming of .gaim catalog help's then this is incompatibility of
> >     configure files or some archives. Try to experiment. IF somethings
> >     happend, wrote here.
> >
> >     Mateusz M.
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> >     gentoo-user@l.g.o <mailto:gentoo-user@l.g.o>
> >     mailing list
> >
> >
> > renaming .gaim to "dot.gaim" makes no difference.
> >
> > I did not re-emerge it, but found that it works if I'm the root user.
> >
> > ++ kevin
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
> You should get pidgin in Your group. Set correct rights to app and libs.
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>
>
I'm not clear on what that means.  I don't think I'm going to fool around
with file permissions on an installed package.

In any event, it turns out that after I ran pidgin as root, it started to
work for me as a user too.  Go figure.  I'm not gonna mess with it.  I'm
going on to the other things that still don't work.

++ kevin


-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD