I noticed there was an Openfire (OSS Jabber server suite) upgrade in Gentoo’s portage, so that gave me the shakes to upgrade. I don’t know why, I just like to upgrade things. I guess I like the challenge of fixing things if/when they break. Sure enough, it was broke.

So for any of you openfire users out there, here is the fix. I tried messing with a bunch of settings (backing up my original MySQL database first) and nothing seemed to help. After scrolling through all of the settings in the admin console, I noticed that the server no longer liked the self rolled SSL certificates. A quick click and the server generated new ones. Restart the openfire server and I was back in business.

I am still one small version behind (3.4.4 versus the current 3.4.5), but I was just to lazy to create a custom ebuild today…