Corrupt group renaming does not save permanently

[SammyB]

Binary package hint: pidgin

While using Pidgin on Ubuntu, one of my Yahoo Messenger groups has an apparently corrupt name of "uFriends". It was originally named just "Friends" in Yahoo Messenger so I'm not sure where Pidgin got the strange characters. The group name field changes every few seconds to another group name or to an individual's alias. I can temporarily correct this by renaming the group to just "Friends" and merging it with my other Friends group. Pidgin, however, does not appear to save this renamed group permanently so I encounter the same group name problem every time I restart it.

This is my first time to report a new bug. I used the built-in Report A Problem feature so hopefully all the info you need is automatically attached.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jul 31 12:44:11 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: pidgin 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
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 2.6.24-19-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

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? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04? 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!.