[Kopete] ICQ protocol too old

Henning Rogge · Apprentice Joined: 20 Sep 2002 Posts: 178

I'm using Kopete 0.12.0 to connect with ICQ and Googletalk.

A few hours ago I had to restart Kopete and now the ICQ server just tell me that my protocol version is too old. Can someone confirm that this is a problem with the server at AOL ?

southern sun · Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 5:21 pm Post subject: Re: [Kopete] ICQ protocol too old

I'm getting the same problem after upgrading net-im/kopete from 0.12.0 to 0.12.0-r1.
The exact error message is "The ICQ server thinks the client you are using is too old. Please report this as a bug at http://bugs.kde.org"
I tried GAIM just for test and it worked fine.
Any workarounds found so far?

southern sun · Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 5:29 pm Post subject: Re: [Kopete] ICQ protocol too old

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130630
Any idea how to integrate the patch with the ebuild?

Henning Rogge · Apprentice Joined: 20 Sep 2002 Posts: 178

I'm using Web-ICQ at the moment... so no, I have NO workaround.

The error appeared today, a few hours ago when I got back from work. Kopete was running without problems yesterday. Because the 0.12.0-r1 package is older than a few days, it should not be the source of our problem.

Maybe AOL changed something on their server ?

Henning Rogge · Apprentice Joined: 20 Sep 2002 Posts: 178

I don't think I understand the format the patch must be to work in portage...

zworK · Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 6:37 pm Post subject:

A quick & dirty fix is simple

Start remerging kopete. Wait until the sources are unpacked and patched, press CTRL+Z, edit the oscartypes.h and change the two lines. Type fg or %1 to continue emerge. ICQ works again

ivanovic · n00b Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 12

It is already fixed in the package net-im/kopete-0.12.0-r2. Thanks devs, you are really fast. I just wanted to submit a bugreport pointing to the fix in the kde tracker.

Fallen_Angel · n00b Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 57 Location: Germany

I've installed net-im/kopete-0.12.1-r2 and there the problem is not fixed yet

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certux · Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 7:11 pm Post subject:

I can confirm Fallen_Angel's statement, when the problem appeared for the first time some weeks ago, upgrading kopete to 0.12.1 helped, but today I got the same error message again and cannot connect to ICQ.

a.forlorn · Guru Joined: 12 Aug 2005 Posts: 412 Location: Ulm, Germany

Henning Rogge · Apprentice Joined: 20 Sep 2002 Posts: 178

See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142302

The patch is ready and comitted, I hope the mirrors will update soon...

Condex · Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 1:01 pm Post subject: Solved...

I've updated to kde-base/kopete-3.5.3-r4 this morning and the ICQ problem has been fixed.

Condex

certux · Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 1:05 pm Post subject:

yeah, net-im/kopete-0.12.1-r3 fixed it as well. Thanks for the hint, Henning Rogge!

maiky · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 9 Location: Prague, CZ

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130630#c85

Is somebody making new realease which includes this patch? It will solve this problem with changing protocol versions.
I'd love to install it from portage, not SVN...

Thanks

Henning Rogge · Apprentice Joined: 20 Sep 2002 Posts: 178

Just update to KDE 3.5.4 and everything is okay...