GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 634984
Cannot connect to ICQ
Last modified: 2010-11-21 14:42:59 UTC
Created attachment 174601 [details] Empathy log, retrieved as explained in FAQ Since yesterday authentication to ICQ fails with the error message "<ICQ ID> Network Error". This happens on every computer I own. Maybe ICQ changed something concerning authentication? It worked fine before and nothing was changed on the existing accounts. Reproducible: Simply open Empathy and let it try to connect to ICQ on startup for an existing account. Running on Ubuntu Maverick 10.10.
Created attachment 174697 [details] Log for "haze (icq)" (only relevant parts kept). I am encountering the same problem: Empathy 2.32.0.1, Ubuntu 10.10. This is similar to Pidgin ticket http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/12817; Pidgin itself currently also fails when "Use SSL" option checked in ICQ account settings (at least, GUI informs the user: "Unable to connect to authentication server: SSL Handshake Failed"). Therefore, as far as SSL is required for connection to ICQ server, I would say this is a server-side problem that may disappear in a short time. Unfortunately, I can't see a way how to force Empathy not to use SSL for connection to ICQ server. One can still use e.g. mentioned Pidgin with SSL disabled, though. Of course, disabling SSL may not be a good idea...
there is a workaround until its fixed: http://live.gnome.org/action/edit/Empathy/Protocols#ICQ
This should be fixed in tp-haze.