Message: "tp-glib-DEBUG: 21/09/10 14:15:20.747028: no connections, and timed out"
Created attachment 38847 [details] gabble.log
gabble/connection-DEBUG: 21/09/10 14:15:15.742547: connector_error_disconnect: connection failed: connection failed: Connection refused Well this sounds suspicious. Perhaps your university has some kind of firewall preventing you connecting to your XMPP server. Can other XMPP clients connect? (Assuming your JID is foo@bar.com, run this command in a terminal: host -t SRV _xmpp-client._tcp.bar.com It should yield something like: _xmpp-client._tcp.bar.com has SRV record 30 30 <port> <server>. (If it doesn't, there's your problem.) Then run this command (substituting the actual values returned for <port> and <server>): telnet <server> <port> I think it will tell you ‘Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused’.)
We haven't heard anything from this for a while and what Will said is exactly what I would guess too. (I had exactly the same problem at my university too.) Feel free to re-open this bug if you think it's some other problem.
Use of freedesktop.org services, including Bugzilla, is subject to our Code of Conduct. How we collect and use information is described in our Privacy Policy.