Pidgin does not allow the buddy addition of yahoo uses. Lists them as "offline".

[Patrick Lozzi]

Binary package hint: pidgin

After more than a dozen attempts, and while some others do not appear to be having the same problem as me, I am stumped. Before pidgin - Gaim would allow the addition of AIM and Yahoo buddies. Both would show. My list was transfered to the new pidgin application and from that point on Yahoo buddies ceased to exist - it shows them as offline. These are known buddies they have already approved me in the past. With the help of wabz on #pidgin in IRC, I added his yahoo handle and he reported that he didn't even receive an authorization request to add me. This doesn't make sense as during the install of pidgin all the correct URI's for AIM Yahoo, MSN, etc.. were appropriately added.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jan 8 05:14:42 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
Package: pidgin 1:2.2.1-1ubuntu4.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: pidgin --session 117f000101000119587152200000058500009
ProcCwd: /home/captain
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 CaptainsBeast 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Dec 18 08:02:57 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Have you tried removing your old pidgin/gaim profile?

[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!.