Re: Not connecting to anything

Are you still seeing this issue with 0.32.g?


On Oct 10, 2003, at 9:58 AM, Geoffrey Hoffman wrote:

> ok, if anyone is keeping score, its still doing it.
>
> I deleted the config files, fired up Fire, and set it up again with 
> all my accounts.  It works fine then.
>
> If I quit, and restart Fire, I see the accounts listed, but they are 
> all listed as "offline", and they won't connect.  In the accounts 
> list, if I pick an account, and say connect, it usually says 
> "connecting...", but I can't even get THAT to happen.  I have to 
> delete the Accounts.plist file, and set the accounts up again.  I 
> tried backing up the Accounts.plist file to see if something is 
> changing, but the old and new files are identical, so something must 
> be going on in memory to make it okay only if the accounts were setup 
> during that session.  This is reproducible, and seems to have started 
> with version .f.  Has anyone else seen this, or have any ideas on why 
> it might be happening?
>
> again, any sort of debug or logging stuff so I can see why it refuses 
> to connect?
>
> At 11:04 AM 10/7/2003 -0400, Geoffrey Hoffman wrote:
>> Ok, just to follow up, that seemed to do it.  I didn't know there 
>> were preferences stored in the App Support section.  They should 
>> probably consider keeping that file in the ~/Lib/Prefs instead.  I 
>> also deleted the config files that were in there.  (Again, should be 
>> in prefs).
>>
>> So, everything is back to normal.  Thanks for the help.
>>
>> At 03:11 PM 10/6/2003 -0600, Nik wrote:
>>> You may want to delete the Accounts.plist file in the 
>>> ~/Library/Application Support/Fire/ directory. It contains all your 
>>> account login information, so you'll need to re-enter it, but it 
>>> often fixes login problems.
>>>
>>> On Monday, October 6, 2003, at 02:02  PM, Geoffrey Hoffman wrote:
>>>
>>>> I hate to be a bother with a vague question, but Fire stopped 
>>>> working for all services for me the other day.  This was after I 
>>>> upgraded to .f, and Yahoo was working fine after that.  The AIM app 
>>>> works by itself, so its not network issues or anything like that.  
>>>> When it starts up, it just lists them all as "Offline" and telling 
>>>> any or all of them to connect keeps them at "Offline".  I tried 
>>>> trashing the .plist in my home directory, and reinstalling the app, 
>>>> but that didn't seem to do it.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to check the logs for it, and/or run it in debug 
>>>> mode or anything like that?
>>>>
>>>> Anything else that might be causing it not to work?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your time.
>>



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