Hi,

I have just restarted pidgin with my computer, but it did not connect to ICQ saying: "Your client version is too old, please update at http://pidgin.im". I in fact used pidgin 2.3 till then, installed 2.4.2 right away and tried the homepage as well (which seems to be down).

With 2.4.2 I still got the same message. Any ideas?

Hi,

i get the same error since my last reboot of my pc, but i'm already using version 2.4.2 for more than a month i think. Maybe they changed something in the icq protocol?

same problem here on XP SP3 and three friends of mine got the problem, too

[Anonymous]

Same here

Pidgin 2.4.2
Seems to be the latest release, or is there a new one on pidgin.im, which is actually down?
Mirrors only provide 2.4.2

(19:08:11) dnsquery: Performing DNS lookup for login.oscar.aol.com
(19:08:11) dnsquery: IP resolved for login.oscar.aol.com
(19:08:11) proxy: Attempting connection to 64.12.161.185
(19:08:11) proxy: Connecting to login.oscar.aol.com:5190 with no proxy
(19:08:11) proxy: Connection in progress
(19:08:15) proxy: Connected to login.oscar.aol.com:5190.
(19:08:15) oscar: connected to FLAP server of type 0x0017
(19:08:15) oscar: Username sent, waiting for response
(19:08:15) oscar: inside auth_resp (Username: xxx)
(19:08:15) oscar: Login Error Code 0x001c
(19:08:15) oscar: Error URL: http://ftp.icq.com/pub/ICQ6/Install_ICQ6U2.exe
(19:08:15) account: Disconnecting account xxx
(19:08:15) connection: Disconnecting connection 04771368
(19:08:15) oscar: Destroying oscar connection of type 0x0017.  Disconnect reason is 0
(19:08:15) oscar: Disconnected.  Code is 0x0000 and msg is
(19:08:15) oscar: Signed off.
(19:08:15) connection: Destroying connection 04771368

Error Code
  0x001C       You are using an older version of ICQ. Upgrade recommended

there's somebody who wants us to use icq6 ^^

hm... gaim still works though...

ICQ doesnt work on meebo.com either.

currently i'm using icq2go (http://www.icq.com/download/icq2go/) for quick ICQ access until this problem is fixed...

Hi!

Got this error today with Pidgin V 2.2.1 (comes with Ubuntu).

I was trying to obtain info about versions - but main page was down.

Well, an old Miranda version (0.6.8 Unicode from 2007) works fine - I have checked this on my home laptop.

Hi everybody,

same here, too, on Win XP Pro after installing 2.4.2.
Uninstalled 2.4.2 and tried backwards till 2.3.1.
But nothing works.

Any ideas whats happen?

Best regards,

Andy

i think the pidgin site is down because of lots of pidgin-users trying to get there because of the error message

hi folks!

i found a quick'n'dirty solution to get pidgin 2.4.2 on windows x86 working again:

change the byte in liboscar.dll at offset 0x19b67 from 0x0a to 0x0b

works for me - ymmw ;)

cheers,
adriano

The other fix is to copy liboscar.dll from an older (2.1.1 for me) install into the Program Files\Pidgin folder (windows fix only)

Thank you for that hint with the liboscar.dll from 2.1.1 release!
Worked like a charm for me!

- Draco