I just upgraded my main computer from Ubuntu 5.something to 8.04. Most
things are workable, but some things I need to change.
Gaim got upgraded to Pidgin and the Jabber protocol got renamed to XMPP
(both of which are OK). I kept many of my old partitions and simply put
them in once the installer had done its dirty work (NOT / and /usr). For
most things, this is great -- no reconfiguration. Alpine (was Pine) picked
up its old color scheme and prefs with no work on my part, for instance,
other than making the terminal's "black" _black_, not dingy grey.
But Pidgin runs and makes sounds for buddy logins and all, but never draws a
window. If I don't run it from the command line I have to ps for it.
The log is at http://royalty.mine.nu:81/pidgin-log.gz (if I've set stuff up
right). Anyone have an idea why this is? For a test, I did
mv .gaim old.gaim # its old conf dir
rm -r .purple # its new conf dir, it copies ~/.gaim if ~/.purple doesn't exist
and got the same behavior.
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