How To Fix The MSN Bug In Empathy [Ubuntu 10.10]

By Ricky on October 23rd, 2010

There is a really annoying bug in Empathy in Ubuntu 10.10 - it refuses to connect to MSN. MSN works fine from other IM clients like Kopete. So, I have been using Kopete on Ubuntu as well. But Kopete being a KDE application is not really a great substitute.

Finally, there is a fix for this Empathy bug. Credit for this fix goes to kakaroto.

Here is what you need to do:

Open the Terminal and execute the command given below:

gksudo gedit usr/share/pyshared/papyon/service/description/SingleSignOn/RequestMultipleSecurityTokens.py

Search for a line which contains

CONTACTS = ("contacts.msn.com", "?fs=1&id=24000&kv=7&rn=93S9SWWw&tw=0&ver=2.1.6000.1")

Replace that line to

CONTACTS = ("contacts.msn.com", "MBI")

Save the file and restart Empathy. MSN should work now.

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Groping_blindly

I just tried the above, and have discovered my RequestMultipleSecurityTokens.py file is blank. Should this be so? Can someone post a sample of their file contents? My MSN/Empathy setup worked fine until recently when this issue cropped up.
- nick
  
  have you found a solution
  - Basico
    
    Try open it with VI. Edit it and ready!
    - gggG
      
      gksudo /gedit usr/share/pyshared/papyon/service/description/SingleSignOn/RequestMultipleSecurityTokens.py
      - Wartinc
        
        No, that’s wrong too, this is correct command:
        gksudo gedit /usr/share/pyshared/papyon/service/description/SingleSignOn/RequestMultipleSecurityTokens.py
        
        Then you replace lines 24 and 25:
        CONTACTS = (“contacts.msn.com”, “?fs=1&id=24000&kv=7&rn=93S9SWWw&tw=0&ver=2.1.6000.1″)
        
        For this one:
        CONTACTS = (“contacts.msn.com”, “MBI”)
        
        The 4 spaces at the beginning are VERY important. Copy it verbatim as above.
nick

i have the same problem as groping_blindly
please help
smoker_dave

Fixed it.

Like yourself, when I use the above terminal code the file that opened was blank.

So I used the “Places” menu at the top to navigate to the correct folder (remember that? Clicking on icons?!).

When I got to the file RequestMultipleSecurityTokens.py turned out it is read only. I can double click it and view with GEDIT but cannot save the modified version.

Ok, go back to terminal and type “gksudo nautilus”

You will now be “root” and can edit the file. You will get a new browser window open in the root folder, just click up a level and then navigate to the “usr/share/pyshared/papyon/service/description/SingleSignOn” folder like you would on a normal computer.

Open the RequestMultipleSecurityTokens.py file with GEDIT (just double click it) and then modify the CONTACTS line as above. It is quite close to the top of the file.

Now MSN is finally signed back in.

Good luck.
- bruno
  
  The problem is that the root directory “/” is missing in the beginning of the patch so instead of:
  usr/share/pyshared/papyon/service/description/SingleSignOn/RequestMultipleSecurityTokens.py
  
  It should be:
  /usr/share/pyshared/papyon/service/description/SingleSignOn/RequestMultipleSecurityTokens.py
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Sayem

Great! Your post just helped me
- Anonymous
  
  Glad you liked it
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Thanks for your help, it works fine now!