Pidgin does not login to Freenode IRC in spite of saving password

[Guruprasad]

I have configured my irc.freenode.net account on Pidgin (using TLS and port 6697) and saved the account credentials so that I am logged in automatically. The login works only for the first time after adding the account. But Pidgin doesn't log me in from the 2nd time of opening Pidgin.

I have the 30 seconds limit to authenticate as my user to Freenode and Pidgin does nothing at to authentication. Manually authenticating using a command like '/msg NickServ identify <password>' within the 30 seconds works fine.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: pidgin 1:2.10.11-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-4.19-generic 4.4.1
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-4-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Mon Feb 15 22:37:56 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-12-18 (58 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
SourcePackage: pidgin
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-02-08 (6 days ago)