[Bug 389322] Re: Yahoo server authentication changed: Pidgin =<2.5.6 will not connect to Yahoo! servers.

[Elton Woo]

I am running Pidgin 2.5.5 in ubuntu 9.04 netbook remix. It simply says 'connecting" but fails to connect to yahoo.ca chat.
I did as per the instructions HERE:http://www.pidgin.im/download/ubuntu/:

To setup the PPA, copy-and-paste these commands into a terminal:

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com \
67265eb522bdd6b1c69e66ed7fb8bee0a1f196a8

echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/pidgin-developers/ppa/ubuntu \     `lsb_release --short --codename` main | \
    sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pidgin-ppa.list

Once this PPA is setup, Pidgin updates will show up in Update Manager
along with the usual Ubuntu updates. The PPA will need to be re-setup
only after upgrading Ubuntu.

When I launched the update manager, it did show availabie updates for
pidgin and libpurple.

After updating, and rebooting the system, "About" now indicates:
Pidgin 2.5.7
(libpurple 2.5.7)

Now I get {username. at yahoo.ca} disabled
Unknown error number 1013. Logging into the Yahoo! website may fix this.
I can login to my account using Firefox (ver.3.0.11), but no success with Pidgin.

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Yahoo server authentication changed: Pidgin =<2.5.6 will not connect to Yahoo! servers.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/389322
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