Ubuntu
pidgin package

Wrong Buddy Information in Buddy List

Bug #150546 reported by Jeff on 2007-10-08

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	pidgin (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

I've noticed this bug since I've been using MySpaceIM protocol. In the Buddy List, pidgin seems to randomly choose buddies, and give them the same name in the buddy list. For example, In my buddy list, it will show

Buddy1 (correct info)
Buddy2 (correct info)
Buddy3 (correct info)
Buddy3 (incorrect, actually a different buddy when you see the tool tip)
Buddy4 (correct info)
Buddy5 (correct info)
Buddy5 (incorrect, actually a different buddy when you see the tool tip)

The screen name and info will show for that buddy when you mouseover, but in the buddy list it will show the wrong screen name. It seems, though I'm not 100% sure, that this usually happens when the buddy before it is away/idle. I never noticed this before I started using myspace im protocol, however, it affects all users on buddy list, not just myspace buddies. I am using pidgin 2.2.1 on ubuntu 7.04 on athlon x2 1GB 250GB.

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Jeff (grapnell) wrote on 2007-10-08:

This is an example of what is happening Edit (96.4 KiB, image/png)

Here is an image of what is happening

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Pedro Fragoso (ember) wrote on 2008-05-08:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

Changed in pidgin:
status:	New → Incomplete

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2008-06-30:

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!.

Changed in pidgin:
status:	Incomplete → Invalid

jojomp (johannes-prechtl) on 2008-11-23

Changed in pidgin:
status:	Invalid → New

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jojomp (johannes-prechtl) wrote on 2008-11-23:

I've had this bug, too. The Buddy-List shows me the name of the group a user belongs to insted of his username. When viewing the tooltip, the username in the list changes to another user's name, and the tooltip only shows the icq number and the user's picture.
Example:

User "foobar" belongs to group "foo"

Buddy-List shows:
Foo
Foo

When viewing the tooltip:
Foo
otheruser

Tooltip:
123456789 (Picture)

The Debug window shows me (partially German):
(12:55:53) Gtk: Failed to set text from markup due to error parsing markup: Fehler in Zeile 2: Zeichen » « ist am Anfang eines Entitätsnamens ungültig; eine Entität beginnt mit dem Zeichen &; wenn das Et keine Entität sein soll, es als & umschreiben

I think this might be due to the user's status message. It contains "&" , "~" etc.

After:

blist: Updating buddy status for 331542819 (ICQ)

Everything is correct again.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2009-01-23:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04? Thanks in advance.

Changed in pidgin:
status:	New → Incomplete

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2009-04-29:

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.