Ichat Not going online after Lion Upgrade !
Anything I can do ?
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iChat Not Working after Lion Upgrade
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I haven't heard of any problem. I'd just do some general troubleshooting: check and recheck your settings (maybe re-establish accounts), things like that.
I had this issue, but after going into preferences, removing both of my accounts and adding them back in everything started working again.
The issue is whith the server iChat is trying to use for authentication. Do the following:
- Go to menu iChat->Preferences
- Choose Accounts icon
- Select "Server Settings" tab
- change the Server to "slogin.oscar.aol.com"
That fixed it for me. BTW, I did not figure this out, I found this solution posted by hifoo45 on MacRumors forum. (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1200859)
This is the advice I got from the MacRumors Forum, and it worked. The whole slogin.oscar.aol.com suggested above seems sketchy.
SOLUTION:
-Open up 'Activity Monitor' (use Spotlight to find it or go to Applications > Utilities).
-In Activity Monitor, find "imagent" and click the red "Quit Process" button. A dialogue will come up asking if you want to Quit, Cancel, or Force Quit. Select Force Quit and iChat will connect.
This actually worked! Finally an answer that I was comfortable with. Like you, I thought the previous answer seemed a bit sketchy.
THANK YOU, it worked.
none of these worked for me! I have been looking through all the preferences, and nothing connects me, I look at my account thing, it says, I can be offline, or invisible... What do I do? nothing I have tried has worked :(
I changed the server settings in the account pane, to slogin.oscar.aol.com and forced quit the imagent and this fixed my problem.