Contact list window became too big

[Yuriy Voziy]

Binary package hint: pidgin

Authorization request from ICQ spammers made my contact list window to grow by in width. It stoped when it was with 3 desktop sizes width. But the worst is that i can't resize it to it's normal size.

Maye it is possible to break work with Pidgin by remote attacker with infinite long authorisation request

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Aug 11 12:10:21 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal nvidia
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=ru_RU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-18-generic i686

[Yuriy Voziy (yuretsz)]

Deleting of .purple directory returned contact list size back to normal

[Magnus S (magnuss)]

Hi, thanks for the report. Have you been able to reproduce this bug?

//magnus

[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!.

[Thomas Howe (to7m)]

No idea if this is related, but I found the same window resize problem after copying .purple from another computer (with a wider resolution). The solution was (with Extended Preferences installed) to tick 'Allow buddy list to shrink below normal size constraints'.