Thread 6058

send help!

for some reason hexchat has randomly stopped working for me. anytime I try to connect It says nickname is already in use. this used to happen if i tried logging on at my office when i still had hexchat open at home, but that hasn't been the case for the last week but i still can't get in. not sure whats going on.

>>6058 (OP)

anyone have this issue before? any idea how id get back on?

Have you tried simply changing your nick to something else and then back?

>>6060

tried that. I created a new account and it seems that my old account is still signed in, but i wouldnt for the life of me know where its signed in, i only use my office computer which only i have access to, and my home PC, and the office computer is off and im on my home PC... and it would appear this has gone on for awhile.

I had this issue before, or something similar. I believe I used:

/msg NickServ RECOVER [nickname] [password]
followed by
/msg NickServ RELEASE [nickname] [password]

^You'll have to be signed in to another account to do these commands, but then you can switch to your real account and do /msg NickServ IDENTIFY [password]

I hope this helps. It fixed my problem.

>>6062

thanks! I tried a whole bunch of other nonsense but i think the issue was that i wasn't trying it in the jani stream specifically. tried this one and i got my nick back. thanks man!

>>6063
sweet

>>6063

If you get a "Nick already in use" message, you can use the GHOST command to disconnect your name if you

/msg Nickserv ghost [nickname] [password]

That fixed it for me.