Adium error telling me to install Pidgin

Thorzdad · Post by **Thorzdad** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 1:09 pm

I launched Adium X (1.0.5) this morning and got the following popup:

The Yahoo server has requested the use of an unrecognized authentication method. You will probably not be able to successfully sign on to Yahoo. Check http://pidgin.im/ for updates.

Whaaa???

Everything seems to be working fine, though.

Where did this message come from? And how do I kill it?

mipadi · Post by **mipadi** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 7:41 pm

Adium uses libpurple as its connection library. libpurple is also used by Pidgin. That might just be an error message from libpurple that gets displayed in Adium, too.

Thorzdad · Post by **Thorzdad** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:02 pm

Okay. Cool.
So...assuming libpurple is at fault, how does one go about fixing it? Obviously, I can connect to Yahoo just fine, despite what the error seems to warn. I looked around at pidgin.im but nothing obvious lept out at me.

Post by **The_Tick** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:09 pm

Assumably you are on 10.3.x. Try installing 1.0.6 of Adium.

Thorzdad · Post by **Thorzdad** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:29 pm

The_Tick wrote:Assumably you are on 10.3.x. Try installing 1.0.6 of Adium.

Didn't help. Still getting the error upon launch.

Helene-J · Post by **Helene-J** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:32 pm

Thorzdad wrote:
The_Tick wrote:Assumably you are on 10.3.x. Try installing 1.0.6 of Adium.
Didn't help. Still getting the error upon launch.

Getting the same errormessage, I'm on 10.4.11 using Adium 1.1.4

Carnivean · Post by **Carnivean** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 11:12 pm

My OS X and Adium versions are also 10.4.11 and 1.1.4, respectively.

The error message that I am receiving is as follows:

"Unknown error number 1. Logging into the Yahoo! website may fix this".

And, unlike the case of others who are reporting here, my installation of Adium is NOT logging onto any of my Yahoo accounts, nor am I able to do so, except when using Yahoo Messenger.

Helene-J · Post by **Helene-J** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 11:19 pm

Now I get both messages, the pidgin one and the Unknown error that Carnivean has. And can't login any longer

The same message tells me that I'm trying to log in to Yahoo Japan? I had to reinstall Adium about a month ago after my Mac crashed and I don't think I ever logged in to Yahoo Japan before that.
Serversettings: cs32.msg.dcn.yahoo.com

nanovivid · Post by **nanovivid** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 11:26 pm

I'm also getting "Unknown error number 1. Logging into the Yahoo! website may fix this."

Happened in 1.1.4 and 1.2b1 on 10.5.1.

ETA: Yahoo! Web Messenger works fine.

Post by **zac** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 11:27 pm

It looks like Yahoo changed something server-side.

Thorzdad · Post by **Thorzdad** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 1:50 am

zac wrote:It looks like Yahoo changed something server-side.

Agreed. Funny that whatever they changed generates the error, yet still allows a login (for most of us)

Helene-J wrote:Serversettings: cs32.msg.dcn.yahoo.com

FWIW, my Yahoo server setting is: scs.msg.yahoo.com on Port 5050

nanovivid · Post by **nanovivid** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:49 am

Everything seems to be back to normal for me now.

Thorzdad · Post by **Thorzdad** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:12 pm

nanovivid wrote:Everything seems to be back to normal for me now.

Same here.
Weirdness.