[137] in im locker bugs
Re: licq broken on 9.3 linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arun A. Tharuvai)
Tue Aug 10 19:05:06 2004
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:04:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Arun A. Tharuvai" <aatharuv@MIT.EDU>
To: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@mit.edu>
cc: bug-im@mit.edu, aatharuv@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <tx1ekmea9s9.fsf@mit.edu>
Hello Ken,
Actually, the olc answers aren't current, and I vaguely remember
submitting an updated answer to this, so I'll ping the OLC fulltime
staff to putting a new answer up, in case it got lost in spam.
I last compiled licq on athena 9.1 (or possibly 9.0), and it uses a
very old version of the ICQ protocol which has been bitrotting ever since
ICQ switched to the current AOL supported protocol, Oscar. If you want to
use ICQ on Athena, I recommend that you use gaim, and create an account of
type AOL/ICQ.
Arun
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Ken Raeburn wrote:
> "olc answers" tells people to use "athrun im licq", but on a 9.3.8
> Athena Linux box:
>
> % athrun im licq
> attach: /afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/im attached to /mit/im for filesystem im
> attach: /afs/athena.mit.edu/contrib/crypto attached to /mit/crypto for filesystem crypto
> /afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/im/bin/licq.real: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> It probably just needs a "i386_rhel3" link in the crypto locker,
> though all that software looks old enough (2001-2002) that it could
> probably stand to be updated.
>
> On Solaris, logged in over ssh from a non-Athena system, it seems to
> start mostly okay:
>
> % athrun im licq
> attach: /afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/im attached to /mit/im for filesystem im
> attach: /afs/athena.mit.edu/contrib/crypto attached to /mit/crypto for filesystem crypto
> 18:29:05: [WRN] Unable to create fifo:
> Invalid argument.
>
> but creates a window saying
>
> Before you can start using LICQ you need to register a use...
>
> You can either register an existing UIN on create a new acc...
>
> Both messages run off the right side of the window (I didn't set the
> window size), and the Prev/Next/Cancel buttons look like they hang
> down a little past the bottom edge of the window, though the text is
> fully visible (but wouldn't be if it had any descenders).
>
> Manually resizing the window does bring everything fully into view.
>
> It spews some messages about assertion failures:
>
> Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GtkLabel'
> Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtklabel.c: line 260 (gtk_label_set_text): assertion `GTK_IS_LABEL (label)' failed.
> Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkwidget.c: line 3310 (gtk_widget_set_sensitive): assertion `widget != NULL' failed.
>
> I got five sets of these messages while I ran licq for a short time.
> I didn't go through with the registration, I was just curious how
> current the instructions and software were.
>
> Ken
>
