Ubuntu
pidgin package

Account gets disabled by connecting from other location (MSN)

Bug #129888 reported by Jaap Versteegh
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pidgin (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: pidgin

When using an MSN account and you sign in from another computer while still connected, the MSN account gets 'disabled'. This is undesirable behaviour. Earlier versions of gaim didn't do this (to my knowledge).
In my opinion, the account should just be disconnected, but not disabled, so it will automatically attempt to login again at next startup.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Aug 2 10:19:47 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
Package: pidgin 1:2.0.2-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: pidgin
ProcCwd: /home/jaapie
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux toshi 2.6.22-9-generic #1 SMP Wed Aug 1 17:31:10 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

Tags: apport-bug
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Jaap Versteegh (j-r-versteegh) wrote :
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Quartz (ghexsel) wrote :

I believe this was always the behaviour. I agree that it's undesirable, though.

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Matthew Tighe (tighem) wrote :

Looks like from the Pidgin website change log that they have added a button to un-disable the account from within pidgin. Either way this doesn't appear to be Pidgin issue per se and definitely not an Ubuntu one. It seems to me it would be an issue with MSN.

Changed in pidgin:
status: New → Invalid
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