[kde-linux] Kopete and MSN after upgrade to Fedora 15

[Jerome Yuzyk]

On Tuesday, November 08, 2011 12:02:59 PM Jerome Yuzyk 
<jerome at supernet.ab.ca> wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 08, 2011 11:41:32 AM Duncan <1i5t5.duncan at cox.net>
> 
> wrote:
> > Jerome Yuzyk posted on Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:37:17 -0700 as excerpted:
> > > I upgraded to Fedora 15 with KDE 4.6.5, and Kopete can't connect to
> > > MSN. I don't see any bugs that seem related, and nothing through
> > > Google. Here's what I get when running Kopete from the console.
> > > 
> > > Could this be Akonadi getting in the way?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 1001 ~  kopete kopete(4413)/kio (KDirWatch)
> > > KDirWatchPrivate::removeEntry: doesn't know
> > > "/home/jerome/.kde/share/apps/kabc"
> > > kopete(4413)/libkdepim Akonadi::PluginLoader::scan: missing or empty
> > > X-KDE- ClassName value in "
> > > 
> > > "/usr/share/kde4/apps/akonadi/plugins/serializer/
> > 
> > akonadi_serializer_bookmark.desktop"
> > 
> > ... And a bunch of other output skipped.
> > 
> > If it turns out to be in your user config, one way to troubleshoot
> > from there is the brute force bisect method.  Copy back about half
> > the dirs and later files within the dir back each time, then try
> > again, thus
> 
> I've since tried Kopete a bunch of times, Emesene and KMess. Kopete and
> Emesene don't connect; KMess says I'm online but I can't see any of my
> contacts and they can't see me.
> 
> Now I'm on to re-visit Pidgin.

... which worked straight away.... reliable as ever...