Pidgin freezes when generating new OTR private key

[jasonwc]

Binary package hint: pidgin-otr

Package: pidgin-otr (Intrepid) 3.2.0-1
Version of Ubuntu: Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid)
Systems used: AMD XP 3200+, 1 GB DDR, 160 GB HDD running Ubuntu 8.10
                        HP dv9500t laptop, 2.0 Ghz Core 2 Duo, 2 GB DDR, 160 GB HDD running of Ubuntu 8.10 LiveCD

When I enable the pidgin-otr plugin and attempt to generate a new private key, Pidgin pops up a dialog box telling me that a new private key is being generated. However, key generation never completes and eventually I receive a notification that Pidgin or "Generating Private Key" is not responding. I have attempted to generate keys for both a XMPP (GMail Account) and an AIM account with the same result, and have repeated the process on both systems multiple times.

I have successfully generated keys using the same version of OTR on Windows XP SP3 on the HP dv9500t laptop.

I'm unsure if this is relevant but I did the key creation on the AMD machine while connected via RealVNC. The connection was made over an OpenVPN tunnel. However, key creation was done on the live system on my HP laptop while using the live CD.

[acm321 (acm3212002)]

I can confirm this bug.

[acm321 (acm3212002)]

Edit....
Pidgin did go nonresponsive, but the key creation succeeded, (and took about ten minutes). This was with a Yahoo account.

[jasonwc (jwittlincohen)]

Key creation did not succeed here even after 45 minutes elapsed.

[jasonwc (jwittlincohen)]

In addition, while Pidgin was frozen, CPU usage remained near 0%.

[goto (gotolaunchpad)]

I marked this as a duplicate of bug 240640. This should be fixed in jaunty.