pidgin prob

[bullfrog83]

Hello i have been having alot of problems with pidgin crashing. I have ubuntu 8.1 with the newest v. of pidgin i could find ,but it keeps crashing when i try to send a im. any help would be greatly appreacated . also i would like to know if anyone knows how to get video (webcam ) to work with yahoo. Thank You .
Jeremiah
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[coopstah13]

can you start pidgin using terminal so you can post us an error message if any when it crashes? Just open a terminal and execute command pidgin

[reed9]

Also, pidgin doesn't support using webcams. They just added voice and video support in the latest release, but only for the xmpp protocol (google talk among others.)

Gyachi is the only linux im client I'm aware of that can do webcams with yahoo, however, it hasn't had a release since 2007, and yahoo made some recent changes to their authentication system which broke most linux clients. I assume Gyachi was affected, but I don't really know.

[JK3mp]

+1 About displaying the errors from the terminal. And reed9 i figure if it was everytime he started webcam etc, he would have mentioned it, but still possible.

[bullfrog83]

in the debug window it says "cannot create Upnp mapping " don't know if this helps. and i don't have a web cam but i was wanted the info because i was intrested in watching one i have a son that is a long way and it would be nice if i could video confrence with him since i don't see him much
Thank everyone for there help
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[JK3mp]

in the debug window it says "cannot create Upnp mapping " don't know if this helps. and i don't have a web cam but i was wanted the info because i was intrested in watching one i have a son that is a long way and it would be nice if i could video confrence with him since i don't see him much
Thank everyone for there help
Linux users RULE

Hmm.. odd, seems like a similiar problem here.

#1350 (Wrong auto detection of public IP) ? Pidgin ? Trac .

And AMEN.

[reed9]

What version of pidgin are you using? Post the output of

dpkg -l pidgin

Assuming it's the default version in Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid, I would recommend updating to the latest version.

Install or Upgrade to Pidgin 2.6.1 in Ubuntu(Jaunty, Intrepid, Hardy) the easy way | Ubuntu Manual

[bullfrog83]

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii pidgin 1:2.6.1-1ubunt graphical multi-protocol instant messaging c
this is what is what i get back i am still fairly new to linux so i want to say think you to all of you for being so helpful