I always could connect to my companys Microsoft Lync network which is based on SIP. There is an addon for Pidgin called pidgin-sipe. Everything worked fine unless the company changed something weird.
Now I always get a Read Error when I want to connect.
The debug output shows the following:
http://fixee.org/paste/vmfb4sl/
Isn't it possible anymore to connect or is this an error of pidgin-sipe?
~$ export NSS_SSL_CBC_RANDOM_IV=0
~$ pidgin
Seems to do the trick, not sure exactly what it does. I need to read up on it.
Here is the bug traq for the issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/950790
There is now a config file you should edit.
sudo -e /etc/default/pidgin-sipe
Uncomment the line that reads,
# export NSS_SSL_CBC_RANDOM_IV=0
(remove the '#' write the file and restart pidgin)
just add:
NSS_SSL_CBC_RANDOM_IV=0
to /etc/environment
and it will persist without you needing a non-standard startup script for pidgin.
To get it working with how you normally start applications in Ubuntu, and not getting into the way of other programs, you can copy the pidgin's launcher to ~/.local/share/applications/ directory by issuing the following commands:
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications
cp /usr/share/applications/pidgin.desktop ~/.local/share/applications
Then edit the file with your favorite editor, e.g.
nano ~/.local/share/applications/pidgin.desktop
Replace the line Exec=/usr/bin/pidgin with the following:
Exec=env NSS_SSL_CBC_RANDOM_IV=0 /usr/bin/pidgin
