always get the "authorize buddy" at start-up

[bihasi]

Binary package hint: pidgin

When I start pidgin, I always get the "authorize buddy" messages. I can't stop it.
Even though I accept, next time I start pidgin, it happens again.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Nov 9 01:35:49 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: pidgin 1:2.2.1-1ubuntu4
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: pidgin
ProcCwd: /home/bihasi
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 xiangni-mitha 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[SammyB (sambrock)]

I'm having the same issue with Ubuntu Pidgin. I have two Hotmail users that I keep clicking deny on but the Authorize buddy? prompt keeps showing up for them each time I start Pidgin.

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

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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? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

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[Javier Jardón (jjardon)]

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!

[Rob Moore (roborative)]

I am also experiencing this. It seems specific to MSN and been identified as an upstream issue:

http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/7939