Cannot connect to google talk using empathy/pidgin after upgrading

Question

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.

Solution 1

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!

Solution 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

Comments

[Bobby]

Open empathy from the terminal, this might output some messages which could give clou a clue what's going on.

[Michael Gundlach]

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[Abbas Gadhia]

didn't work. i guess my network firewall must be interfering...