Logjam never did checkfriends right on one of my FreeBSD machines, but did on the other (essentially identically configured, aside from hardware differences). I even purged all its data and started from scratch, but it didn't work. Never did figure it out. :(

I haven't tried it in a while, but it's probably either:
- LJ turns checkfriends off sometimes due to load
- checkfriends is buggy because I'm a bad programmer

Perhaps turn on the "network debug" flag and watch the console? It'll hopefully make a request every 45 seconds, and you can look for a 1 or a 0 in the response to see if the LJ servers are saying the right thing...

okay, i turned on "dump network data" and "don't fork", and did "update information" to make sure it was working (it was). then i waited a few minutes, but it didn't do anything - nothing on the console at all.

(the first time i typed this reply, i said "don't work" instead of "don't fork". perhaps i still have the hidden "don't work" option enabled ;-)

Actually, now that I think back to why I stopped using it on that machine, it was weirder than that. It always thought there was new activity: when I enabled checkfriends the icon immediately began to spin, and never stopped.

Possibly an uninitialized variable somewhere? I seem to recall poking at the code once but not seeing anything obvious, and valgrind was at the time not working on FreeBSD.

AFAIK checkfriends has been pretty broken since 4.3. There's a Debian bug tracking this here: http://bugs.debian.org/234786
One thing you might need to try, if you haven't done so already, is to enable the per-account option for friends checking. I realize that sucks.

huh... yeah, now it works. what an odd interface :-)

thanks!