Ubuntu
pidgin package

sametime most online contacts marked offline

Bug #272108 reported by arturj on 2008-09-19

This bug affects 6 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Pidgin	New	Unknown	pidgin-bugs #8134
	pidgin (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: pidgin

I sometimes use Pidgins Sametime Plugin to connect to our corperate sametime server. Using original sametime client I subscribed to some user-GROUPS. All contacts within this groups do automatically show up when online in original sametime client. Now using Pidgin all subscribed groups also do show up, but MOST contacts do show up as offline / do not show up when offline contacts are disabled (I have verified with original client that this people indeed are online). Over time more and more people get displayed correctly as online (I guess when their clients update their online status or when they generate any messages). It seems that Pidgin does not actively get the stati of people but rely on beeing notified by the server.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Sep 19 13:59:06 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
Package: pidgin 1:2.5.0-0ubuntu2~hardy1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

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arturj (arturj-freenet) wrote on 2008-09-19:

Dependencies.txt Edit (3.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (39.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (734 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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João Olavo Vasconcelos (joaoolavo) wrote on 2008-10-22:

Same thing happening here. Some online users appear offline. As time goes on, the already online contacts go appearing online to me. This bug comes since gaim.

Magnus S (magnuss) on 2008-12-24

Changed in pidgin:
status:	New → Confirmed

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2009-04-09:

There is a similar bug on http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/8134

Changed in pidgin (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2009-04-09

Changed in pidgin:
status:	Unknown → New

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EclipseAgent (ben-kevan) wrote on 2009-06-24:

I can also confirm this bug. If they change their status, then they will come back online so it has something to do with status changing..

Can we move this from low to medium? It's quite cumbersome especially if you expect to have a strong Enterprise client.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2009-09-20

Changed in pidgin:
status:	New → Unknown

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2009-09-24

Changed in pidgin:
status:	Unknown → New

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EclipseAgent (ben-kevan) wrote on 2009-09-24:

This works for me in

Pidgin 2.6.1 with meanwhile 1.0.2

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Dilkington (dilkington) wrote on 2009-10-02:

This is still an issue for me
Jaunty
Pidgin 2.6.2
meanwhile 1.0.2-3

Incidently I also get the same issue with Kopete 0.70.2

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EclipseAgent (ben-kevan) wrote on 2009-10-02:

Dilkington:

The reason it is in both is because libpurple-meanwhile is shared between Pidgin and Kopete..

When I say it works for me.. I should have noted that it's with openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 7 / 8

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Dilkington (dilkington) wrote on 2009-12-15:

ok - thanks for that.

One thing I can see is that it looks as though pidgin is using libmeanwhile1 - (open implementation) to connect to sametime. You reference libpurple-meanwhile - I am assuming these are not one in the same thing ?

From what I can make out libpurple-meanwhile is now part of the core pidgin install and the open source Meanwhile library is used by this. Am guessing you are saying that Kopete uses the same approach ?

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EclipseAgent (ben-kevan) wrote on 2010-04-27:

I'm irritated that the developers haven't implemented this fix in pidgin for Ubuntu yet..

264752 < I've updated that bug report with the patch which was taken from the SUSE RPM's..

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Jim Hodapp (jhodapp) wrote on 2010-09-15:

#10

This is still a bug for me as well. Is there a fix for this yet? I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 against my corporate SameTime server.

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EclipseAgent (ben-kevan) wrote on 2010-09-15:

#11

Jim,

Sadly the Ubuntu bug squashing team decides not to fix the issue. Which is hard to understanding since they do so many downstream changes anyways.

The best fix is to either move to openSUSE or Fedora, where both work just fine for me.

I've even attached the following patch:

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/44591577/meanwhile-status.diff

That fixes the issue (I think that was made against early 2.6 versions).. It's just sad..

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Gregory Youtz (greg-youtz) wrote on 2011-08-26:

#12

Hi,

Am having the same problem..... was this bug ever fixed?

Thanks.

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Jim Hodapp (jhodapp) wrote on 2011-08-26:

#13

No, it is not fixed in 11.04 of Ubuntu. What I've done is compiled the source version of libmeanwhile and copied the .so over the one installed by the Ubuntu package. This fixes it for your local box, but of course needs to be reapplied every time the Ubuntu libmeanwhile package gets updated.

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David Young (dove-young) wrote on 2011-11-29:

#14

Seems this method fixed this problem.

http://b1mmer.com/linux/fix-for-sametime-pidgin-linux