Ichat AV 2.1 "broken pipe exit "error

Question

Seem to have isolated the problem with ichat to "broken pipe".Ichat opens off and on but mostly not. Sometimes the welcome to ichat screen opens sometimes the buddy list. If I close it ichat wont open a second time.
I have done all the suggested things reinstall, clean install, permissions, updates , etc. ,etc. etc.
What is this "broken pipe thing??

Answer 1

Hi Hobart,
Broken Pipe is a reference to the iChat app not talking to the Support folders.
The only way I know to "Fix" this is to reinstall the App and the Support folders and then run the Combo installer for the OS level you are at.
I have not seen it be reported on an intermittent basis like this.
If you create another Mac User Account in System Preferences > Accounts and use the same iChat Screen name in that Mac User account does iChat Work ?
This would point to it being the .plists that are are at fault for the original User if it does.
If iChat does not work properly here even with the
/Applications/iChat.app/Contents/MacOS/iChat -errorLogLevel 7 thing then it will be the whole app and support folders that are at fault.
As it appears to be intermittent we could try Repair Permissions and Running the Cron scripts.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=122021
But you do say you have done this.
You even say you have done a Clean Install.
Does this mean you wiped the Disk and started from Scratch ?
3:49 PM Wednesday; December 6, 2006