Pidgin crashes upon login to Yahoo

[Chris Y.]

Binary package hint: pidgin

No matter whether I'm logged into anything else or not, every time I try to log in to my Yahoo account, Pidgin crashes. This has been consistently happening, no matter how I configure the login. Why might this be?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jan 5 21:41:03 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
Package: pidgin 1:2.2.1-1ubuntu4.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: pidgin
ProcCwd: /home/chris
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/chris/bin:/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 YAOMTC-1 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Dec 18 08:02:57 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Luis García (angelblade)]

I confirmed this bug on Pidgin 2.5.1 under Ubuntu 8.10 (beta)

i added a backtrace with info

[Magnus S (magnuss)]

Hi,
is this bug still an issue? Which version of ubuntu and pidgin are you using now?

//magnus

[patty (pattycake232002)]

thank you its working now. we upgraded to the new ubuntu and it works great.

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From: Magnus S <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 4:59:04 PM
Subject: [Bug 180714] Re: Pidgin crashes upon login to Yahoo

Hi,
is this bug still an issue? Which version of ubuntu and pidgin are you using now?

//magnus

** Changed in: pidgin (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Status in “pidgin” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
Binary package hint: pidgin

No matter whether I'm logged into anything else or not, every time I try to log in to my Yahoo account, Pidgin crashes. This has been consistently happening, no matter how I configure the login. Why might this be?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jan 5 21:41:03 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
Package: pidgin 1:2.2.1-1ubuntu4.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: pidgin
ProcCwd: /home/chris
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/home/chris/bin:/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 YAOMTC-1 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Dec 18 08:02:57 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Michele Mangili (mangilimic)]

This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed with an update. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the revealed drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status . Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Feel free to submit any future bugs you may find.