Cannot Seem to Make the System Work

[Aemudi17]

What do you know!!  It worked - following the rather round-about instructions they give in those debug tips eventually did the trick.
I am so appreciative of your having persevered with my dilemma .. you do a great service for those in need... namely 'me'.  Many thanks

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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Cannot Seem to Make the System Work
> Local Time: August 18, 2017 7:48 AM
> UTC Time: August 17, 2017 11:48 PM
> From: forums at david-woolley.me.uk
> To: Aemudi17 <aemudi17 at protonmail.com>, support at pidgin.im <support at pidgin.im>
>
> Are you looking in the debug window?
>
> I"d expect a lot more output. I"m not completely sure, but I think the
> errors you are quoting appear in the main window, not the debug window.
>
> The first error you report is very general, and basically says something
> went wrong talking to the server. The second is probably a consequence
> of the first.
>
> Without more debugging information, it is anyone"s guess what went wrong.
>
> This is a longer description of the first error:
>
> "There was an error sending or receiving on the network socket, or there
> was some protocol error (such as the server sending malformed data)."
>
> As you can see, it is very general.
>
> Information on how to obtain a debug log can be found at
> <https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/TipsForBugReports#ObtainingaDebugLog>.
>
> On 17/08/17 13:58, Aemudi17 wrote:
>> 1) Unable to establish a connection with the server
>> 2) Lost connection with server: Bad file descriptor
>>
>> Hi, David!! The above are the 2 messages I receive when I go into
>> pidgin and click on "Available". 1) comes in first, then 2) follows
>> shortly - or when I go out of the site and come back in... and there it is.
>>
>> If you can work it out .. I surely will appreciate it
>>
>>
>>
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>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: Re: Cannot Seem to Make the System Work
>>> Local Time: August 17, 2017 4:32 PM
>>> UTC Time: August 17, 2017 8:32 AM
>>> From: forums at david-woolley.me.uk
>>> To: Aemudi17 <aemudi17 at protonmail.com>, support at pidgin.im
>>> <support at pidgin.im>
>>>
>>> I"m not familiar with the fine details of the XMPP support, but an error
>>> that says bad file descriptor sounds like a secondary error (a previous
>>> error has invalidated the file descriptor and the code has tried to
>>> continue processing). Are you taking the message from the debug log?
>>> If so, what precedes the final error, as that is more likely to be
>>> helpful.
>>>
>>> On 16/08/17 05:11, Aemudi17 wrote:
>>> > Sorry about my ignorance. At sea!! Is what you are looking to know -
>>> XMPP?
>>> > If so, please do give me any advise you can .. I have not yet taken out
>>> > all that I downloaded, so help would be appreciated
>>> >
>>> >
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>>> >> -------- Original Message --------
>>> >> Subject: Re: Cannot Seem to Make the System Work
>>> >> Local Time: August 15, 2017 11:22 PM
>>> >> UTC Time: August 15, 2017 3:22 PM
>>> >> From: forums at david-woolley.me.uk
>>> >> To: Aemudi17 <aemudi17 at protonmail.com>, support at pidgin.im
>>> >> <support at pidgin.im>
>>> >>
>>> >> On 15/08/17 16:14, Aemudi17 wrote:
>>> >> > Doesn"t look like you are going to give me any assistance, so I will
>>> >> > just clear out everything I have downloaded to my laptop... and
>>> >> start again.
>>> >> >
>>> >>
>>> >> You didn"t provide the information needed to give you any assistance.
>>> >>
>>> >> Also note that "you" just means other users of Pidgin, as there is no
>>> >> money for a support organisation.
>>> >
>>> >
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