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levesque
Asked: 2010-10-22 06:38:16 +0800 CST

Cannot connect to google talk using empathy/pidgin after upgrading

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I can't seem to be able to connect to google talk using either pidgin or empathy after upgrading to Ubuntu 10.10 (fresh install).

I do not know why... empathy just writes "Connecting ..." forever and never connects. What can I do from there?

Google talk's web interface works just fine for me so I doubt it is a firewall issue.

EDIT: In fact sometimes it's able to connect (empathy), it just takes a LOOONG time (I'd say about 5 mins), longer than I am willing to wait. On the other hand, the web interface is able to connect in seconds.

10.10 empathy google-talk pidgin

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I also faced this problem today. But it does connect, so this may actually be a bug in empathy/pidgin. Report it by typing this in a terminal:

    ubuntu-bug empathy

    Replace empathy above with pidgin if you want to report a bug in pidgin.

    Thanks!

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  2. Try this:

    1. Add Google Talk account
    2. Login ID: [email protected]
    3. Password: **
    4. [x] Encryption required (TLS/SSL)
    5. [x] Ignore SSL certificate errors
    6. Resource:
    7. Priority: 0
    8. Server: talk.google.com
    9. Port: 443
    10. [x] Use old SSL
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  3. I have faced the same problem today and after waste a couple of hours I found a solution and I posted it in my Blog:

    http://rodrigoguarischi.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/fixing-empathy-bug-gtalk-contact-doesnt-appear/

    I hope it helps

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