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thonixx
Asked: 2012-06-08 02:07:46 +0800 CST

Lync (formerly Office Communicator) with pidgin-sipe => Read Error

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I always could connect to my companys Microsoft Lync network which is based on SIP. There is an addon for Pidgin called pidgin-sipe. Everything worked fine unless the company changed something weird. Now I always get a Read Error when I want to connect.

The debug output shows the following:
http://fixee.org/paste/vmfb4sl/

Isn't it possible anymore to connect or is this an error of pidgin-sipe?

pidgin

4 Answers

  1. ~$ export NSS_SSL_CBC_RANDOM_IV=0

    ~$ pidgin

    Seems to do the trick, not sure exactly what it does. I need to read up on it.

    Here is the bug traq for the issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/950790

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  2. Other answers are old ways.

    There is now a config file you should edit.

    sudo -e /etc/default/pidgin-sipe

    Uncomment the line that reads,

    # export NSS_SSL_CBC_RANDOM_IV=0

    (remove the '#' write the file and restart pidgin)

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  3. Best Answer

    just add:

    NSS_SSL_CBC_RANDOM_IV=0

    to /etc/environment

    and it will persist without you needing a non-standard startup script for pidgin.

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  4. To get it working with how you normally start applications in Ubuntu, and not getting into the way of other programs, you can copy the pidgin's launcher to ~/.local/share/applications/ directory by issuing the following commands:

    mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications
cp /usr/share/applications/pidgin.desktop ~/.local/share/applications

    Then edit the file with your favorite editor, e.g.

    nano ~/.local/share/applications/pidgin.desktop

    Replace the line Exec=/usr/bin/pidgin with the following:

    Exec=env NSS_SSL_CBC_RANDOM_IV=0 /usr/bin/pidgin
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