Pidgin IM / Discussion / Users Helping Users:ICQ: Client Version too old

goflin - 2008-07-01

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?

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- Cosmo - 2008-07-01
  
  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?
  
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- - 2008-07-01
  
  same problem here on XP SP3 and three friends of mine got the problem, too
  
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- Anonymous - 2008-07-01
  
  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
  
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- grusy - 2008-07-01
  
  (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
  
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- - 2008-07-01
  
  there's somebody who wants us to use icq6 ^^
  
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- wolfvoz - 2008-07-01
  
  hm... gaim still works though...
  
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- duke4e - 2008-07-01
  
  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...
  
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- Ignat Zapolsky - 2008-07-01
  
  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.
  
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- andydld - 2008-07-01
  
  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
  
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- - 2008-07-01
  
  i think the pidgin site is down because of lots of pidgin-users trying to get there because of the error message
  
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- Adrian Rumpold - 2008-07-01
  
  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
  
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- LCD_Integration - 2008-07-01
  
  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)
  
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  - Jan Schütze - 2008-07-01
    
    Thank you for that hint with the liboscar.dll from 2.1.1 release!
    Worked like a charm for me!
    
    - Draco
    
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