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6 <link type="guide" xref="prob-conn"/>
7 <link type="guide" xref="irc-manage#problems"/>
8 <link type="seealso" xref="account-irc"/>
9 <title type="link" role="error-msg">“Name in use”</title>
11 An error message which says “<gui>Name in use</gui>” appears in the main window.
13 <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-07-26" status="draft"/>
14 <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-14" status="review"/>
15 <revision pkgversion="2.30" version="0.3" date="2010-02-16" status="review"/>
16 <revision pkgversion="3.2" version="0.4" date="2011-12-18" status="review"/>
17 <credit type="author">
18 <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
19 <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
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27 <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
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33 <title>I get a message that says “Name in use”</title>
36 This kind of error happens when you try to connect to your IRC account and
37 you are using a nickname that is already being used by someone else on that particular
44 Click the <media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/gtk-edit.png">edit</media>
45 icon in the error message.
52 In the <gui>Nickname</gui> text box, type a new nickname.
57 If you have registered that nickname within the network you are using,
58 set the password for that nickname. For more information,
59 see <link xref="irc-nick-password"/>.
66 Switch the account off, and then switch it on to try to reconnect to the