Anyone having problems with ichat after lion install?

Hi,

First of go to the iChat Manu > Preferences > General Section.

Deselect the item that links Buddy List together.

Now go to the Account section.

Apart from the Bonjour Account, is any Other Accounts marked as Use this Account ?

For AIM Logins and Jabber (Google/Facebook) this is in the Account Info tab (The Yahoo one in iChat 6 only have one Pane (No Tabs)

If not tick the box.

Close the Preferences.

In the iChat Menu > Accounts are any Accounts showing as Ticked (Logged in) ?

Do these same Accounts show in the Window Menu ?

Using the Red button on a Buddy List to try and close the app does not work. You specifically have to Quit it.

However if you did close the Buddy list iChat will remember where the Buddy List (Or any other Window) when the app was Quit.

If the Window for the Buddy List was Closed it will remain ""Hidden".

If the account is Ticked in the iChat Menu > Accounts and shows in the Window Menu use the Window Menu keystrokes to bring it into view.

Further to this iChat 6 is effected by the setting in System Preferences > General Pane that reads something about opening apps with all the windows that were open when it was Quit.

It works for all apps and is useful in iChat to keep a Text Chat "on Top" when you reopen the app (by having it open when you last Quit).

As I have said it will also remember windows that are closed before Quit and keep them hidden on re-launching the app.

7:39 PM Tuesday; August 30, 2011

Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"

 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb( 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

MobiusB,

I can also reproduce this behavior. Leopard and Snow Leopard w/ VPN worked flawlessly as well.

The consistent fix for me is to do a ps -ax | grep imagent and then just kill the imagent process. Once I do that iChat will connect to everything fine through the VPN.

-B

You need to disable 32-bit mode on iChat (Applications->right click iChat->Get Info->Uncheck 32 bit mode->relaunch iChat.

I had to kill the imagent process to get ichat to let me login, and this seems to make sense since about %50 of the time i send or recive images over bonjour ichat will crash. Even tho it crashes, it leaves the imagent running.

Chris

SOLUTION: run your activity monitor

close IMAGENT

restart your iChat

hope this helps 🙂

It would seem to as it is mentioned in thread from August to Novemeber 2011 (digitalColeman's entry above yours in Threaded view).

digitalcoleman

Re: Anyone having problems with ichat after lion install?

12-Nov-2011 23:05 ( in response to TomFletcher)

I had to kill the imagent process to get ichat to let me login, and this seems to make sense since about %50 of the time i send or recive images over bonjour ichat will crash. Even tho it crashes, it leaves the imagent running.

Chris

An Earlier one

MobiusB North Carolina USA

Re: Anyone having problems with ichat after lion install?

06-Oct-2011 15:33 ( in response to hodges88)

The consistent fix for me is to do a ps -ax | grep imagent and then just kill the imagent process. Once I do that iChat will connect to everything fine through the VPN.

-B

An Auguust one

Seanus Melbourne

Re: Anyone having problems with ichat after lion install?

14-Aug-2011 23:21 ( in response to prowlercrew)

Nope sorry. That made no difference what so ever. My only 100% works every time is to go to Activity Monitor and force quite the imagent.

Hopefully this bug will be fixed in the next update of Lion.

8:48 PM Monday; January 16, 2012

Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"

 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Lion 10.7.2)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

Note to others.

This was posted before I got my Lion iMac.

iChatAgent in OS X 10.6.x and earlier is iChat Only.

In Lion IMAgent does both FaceTime and iChat Logins.

7:18 PM Thursday; February 2, 2012

Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"

 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Lion 10.7.2)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

Even with 10.7.3 installed there is no way I can get iChat working over VPN, while I have full internet access over VPN (when I go to whatismyip.com, I now get the public IP from the server). Only the connection to my iChat Server on Lion is somehow confused. I have quit the IMagent process and iChat to no avail.

How to fix the routing issue?

If this is a a question about iChat Server it may pay to ask in the server fourms.

iChat Server and VPNs are beyond my knowledge.

9:23 PM Monday; March 19, 2012

Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"

 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Lion 10.7.3)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

Check under info (command-I) that iChat is NOT opening in 32 bit. Uncheck the 32bit box in information.

Funny, my iChat was crashing on launch (under 10.7.4) and CHECKING the 32-bit-mode box is what enabled it to run. 2012 MacBook Pro.