Pidgin cannot connect to my Google Talk Account anymore.

[alldunn]

I'm guessing the "Use GNOME Proxy Settings" are those found under System > Preferences > Network Proxy, which on my laptop is configured as 'Direct internet connection' with no manual specs.

My settings are the exact same. It doesn't work on my machines here at work or at home. Very odd. Hopefully it will correct itself soon.

[siddtharth]

I was not able to connect to gtalk too. But turns out that because I had disable the networking in gnome network manager as I have it set up in /etc/network/interfaces, it was not working.
I'm connected to internet, but Pidgin thinks it is not connected to internet. I used command line to start piding in debug mode
[pidgin -d] and I can see there it complain about cannot connect to internet. But as soon as I clicked on enable networking in network manager it was able to connect.

[alldunn]

This is what I am receiving when running pidgin -d

(19:30:27) jabber: Recv (ssl)(16): </stream:stream>
(19:30:27) connection: Connection error on 0xa40eb90 (reason: 0 description: Server closed the connection)
(19:30:27) account: Disconnecting account username@gmail.com/ (0x9de45c8)
(19:30:27) connection: Disconnecting connection 0xa40eb90

[alldunn]

OK, so I just thought to check on my wife's account and her's is working fine under a different system account on the same computer. So obviously it is something with my account, but gtalk works fine from my Android phone. Just not any other Ubuntu machine. It's almost like my account has been locked, but it hasn't. This is very frustrating and I am not too sure what else to do.

[siddtharth]

What's the domain you are connecting to ?
can you try googlemail.com instead of gmail.com which is the default.

[SuaSwe]

Silly little thing but:

http://www.google.com/support/talk/b...n&answer=25752

Apparently unlocks the account in some situations?

[alldunn]

Thanks for the suggestions, but none of these worked either. I am going to try a few other drastic things and will report back if I figure anything out.

[alldunn]

Silly little thing but:

http://www.google.com/support/talk/b...n&answer=25752

Apparently unlocks the account in some situations?

OK got it working. I closed all of my browsers (some of which has been open for weeks) on my work desktop and followed these steps. I am not sure if closing the browsers did it or this unlock procedure did. The only thing I can come up with is the gmail checker firefox extension I have installed somehow locked my account. Weird issue indeed and I am glad it is resolved. Thanks for all the help!