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7 <link type="guide" xref="prob-conn"/>
8 <link type="guide" xref="irc-manage#problems"/>
9 <link type="seealso" xref="account-irc"/>
10 <title type="link" role="error-msg">“Name in use”</title>
12 An error message which says “<gui>Name in use</gui>” appears in the main window.
14 <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-07-26" status="draft"/>
15 <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-14" status="review"/>
16 <revision pkgversion="2.30" version="0.3" date="2010-02-16" status="review"/>
17 <revision pkgversion="3.2" version="0.4" date="2011-12-18" status="review"/>
18 <credit type="author">
19 <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
20 <email its:translate="no">milo@ubuntu.com</email>
23 <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
28 <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
30 <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" />
34 <title>I get a message that says “Name in use”</title>
37 This kind of error happens when you try to connect to your IRC account and
38 you are using a nickname that is already being used by someone else on that particular
44 <p>Click the <media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/gtk-edit.png" its:translate="no"><span its:translate="yes">edit</span></media>
45 icon in the error message.</p>
51 In the <gui>Nickname</gui> text box, type a new nickname.
56 If you have registered that nickname within the network you are using,
57 set the password for that nickname. For more information,
58 see <link xref="irc-nick-password"/>.
65 Switch the account off, and then switch it on to try to reconnect to the