Pidgin forgets Bonjour aliases

[Lee Maguire]

Binary package hint: pidgin

Pidgin lets me edit the alias of connections available via Bonjour, but these aliases do not persist across sessions even if
the username and machine identifier remain the same. Notes are also lost.

Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: pidgin 1:2.5.5-1ubuntu8.1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare vboxusers

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ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jun 6 20:15:48 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
Package: pidgin 1:2.0.0+dfsg.1-3ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: pidgin
ProcCwd: /home/lee
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux zoidberg 2.6.22-6-generic #1 SMP Fri Jun 1 19:24:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

Steps to reproduce:

 - open up Buddy List
 - select user in Bonjour group
 - edit alias
 - alias is changed
 - quit pidgin
 - restart
 - open up Buddy List
 - user in Bonjour group reverted back to original alias

Still persists in Jaunty.

[Pedro Fragoso (ember)]

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.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

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!.

[Lee Maguire (leemaguire)]

Obviously it's not still an issue for *me* - if I know that a specific software feature is broken I don't use it.

[Lee Maguire (leemaguire)]

I've confirmed it as still "broken", in that it does not perform as I would expect:

 - find a bonjour listed contact "<email address hidden>"
 - edit the alias to be "Joe Example"
 - contact now displayed as "Joe Example"
 - stop/start pigdin
 - contact now displayed as "<email address hidden>"

[Lee Maguire (leemaguire)]

Notes are no longer available for Bonjour contacts, therefore I've amended the title.

[Dave05 (dave05er)]

Ok - I have the same problem here. Using pidgin on windows for intranet chat with mac users. When I change aliases, pidgin forgets them after restart. Not a big problem but a little annoying though. ;)

[Magnus S (magnuss)]

Anyone still having this issue? If so, which version of ubuntu and pidgin are you using?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

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!.

[Taoufix (taoufix)]

I have the same problem. I'm using:
Ubuntu 8.10
Pidgin 2.5.2

> Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information
What exactly you need to know? I'll be happy to help :)

[Rumpeltux (rumpeltux)]

A workaround is to move the contact into another group (i.e. out of “Bonjour”). Aliases will be kept then. I have not tried notes, though.

[Taoufix (taoufix)]

> A workaround is to move the contact into another group (i.e. out of “Bonjour”). Aliases will be kept then. I have not tried notes, though.
Thanks. The workaround worked for me.

[xteejx (xteejx-deactivatedaccount)]

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 if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Lee Maguire (leemaguire)]

Yes - still in Jaunty.

 - open up Buddy List
 - select user in Bonjour group
 - edit alias
 - alias is changed
 - quit pidgin
 - restart
 - open up Buddy List
 - user in Bonjour group reverted back to original alias

[xteejx (xteejx-deactivatedaccount)]

Can you run
apport-collect 119000
and let it add all relevant information for the Jaunty version of the problem. Thanks.

[Rumpeltux (rumpeltux)]

Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: pidgin 1:2.5.5-1ubuntu8.1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare vboxusers

[xteejx (xteejx-deactivatedaccount)]

Setting Confirmed. I seem to be having constant problems accessing the pidgin bugtracker. Would someone see if they can report this upstream to pidgin.im bugtracker please? Thank you.

[xteejx (xteejx-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner.
There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test the current Ubuntu version (10.10). If you can test it, and it is still an issue, we would appreciate if you could upload updated logs by running apport-collect <bug #>, and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

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!