Chatty can no longer start since the last update

[anonymous]

Hello

I cannot read my SMS, Chatty doesn't open anymore since the last update (libpurple?). When I naively tried to run it in command line by entering "chatty", it complained about a missing shared library libjabber.so.0. What can I do to fix it? Where should I look for error logs?

[Zdenek]

Hello

I cannot read my SMS, Chatty doesn't open anymore since the last update (libpurple?). When I naively tried to run it in command line by entering "chatty", it complained about a missing shared library libjabber.so.0. What can I do to fix it? Where should I look for error logs?

Hi,
same error here...

It looks like it will be fixed in the next version of chatty 0.6.4:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepor...ug=1011166

[anonymous]

Hello

I cannot read my SMS, Chatty doesn't open anymore since the last update (libpurple?). When I naively tried to run it in command line by entering "chatty", it complained about a missing shared library libjabber.so.0. What can I do to fix it? Where should I look for error logs?

Hi,
same error here...

It looks like it will be fixed in the next version of chatty 0.6.4:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepor...ug=1011166

Thank you for your reply. "ln -s" might help in the meantime but maybe I should just wait for a clean fix.

[dcinoz]

I tried building Chatty 0.6.4 from here https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/chatty/-/tree/v0.6.4
but I had an error on the meson build stage (meson.build:113:0: ERROR: Subproject exists but has no meson.build file)

Try at your own risk, I forced installation of 0.6.4-1 from https://packages.debian.org/sid/arm64/chatty/download
using

Code:

sudo apt-get install -f ./chatty_0.6.4-1_arm64.deb

and that worked for me. Hopefully my build attempts did not affect it and would work for others. I have not tested it but it runs i.e. launches as per normal.

Hopefully a fix will be available via the usual Mobian updates.

[anonymous]

I entered this in command line:
wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/mai..._arm64.deb
sudo dpkg -i chatty_0.6.4-1_arm64.deb

Then, I rebooted my pinephone (mandatory, otherwise you just get a blank Chatty) and it worked

dcinoz, as you can see in the bug report, the fix will be available in about 4 days for others.

[cjhead]

When building from source, I received an error for a missing libpurple0.so file. I had libpurple0 in my /var/cache/archives still so it worked after I downgraded by running:
dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libpurple0_2.14.8-1_arm64.deb

I did the same thing with pidgin-data prior to that, but I don't think it fixed anything.

[Anna]

I entered this in command line:
wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/mai..._arm64.deb
sudo dpkg -i chatty_0.6.4-1_arm64.deb

That worked for me, thank you!

[amindfv]

I hit the same problem and was able to fix it without installing anything:

Code:

$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/purple-2 chatty

It's the advice provided here, except replacing "x86_64" with "aarch64" in the path: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepor...ug=1011166

By the way, is there any way to know if apt-upgrading will break our phones ahead of time? I would have been happy to just not upgrade until the fix is up.

[Zebulon Walton]

By the way, is there any way to know if apt-upgrading will break our phones ahead of time? I would have been happy to just not upgrade until the fix is up.

Not that I know of other than holding off on potentially problematical updates and keeping an eye out here for reports of problems.

I do full image backups of my eMMC periodically so if something serious breaks I can get the phone back to a working state. I also keep a "known to work" sd card handy just in case.

[drh]

Received update yesterday that included chatty. Chatty now launches successfully and I can send/receive texts again. The new chatty version has new features that seem quite useful.

I appreciate so much the work that all of the developers put into advancing this functionality of the pinephone. I will continue to support by using the device and software that I enjoy using. I will try to find other ways to support as best as I can.