pidgin creates mysterious chat room

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Binary package hint: pidgin

Whenever a certain friend (buddy of my MSN account) of mine logs in from 2 computers, an MSN Chat window appears with just me and the certain friend twice. The window appears without the friend having the intention to write to me or anything. The window only appears on my screen. If I type in that window, I think the friend sees the messages as if they were coming from a normal chat window with me (not a chat room.... actually i don't know whether MSN messenger makes a difference or not).

This friend told me he recently installed the new MSN messenger client, which has this new feature that you can log on from two or more different machines at a time. This is most probably the key trigger.

I'm using Ubuntu 8.10, recently upgraded from 8.04. I think I have the latest pidgin package from ubuntu's default repo.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: pidgin 1:2.5.2-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/ubin
 LANG=C
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-9-generic x86_64

[Przemek K. (azrael)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner.
There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test the current Ubuntu development version (10.04). If you can test it, and it is still an issue, we would appreciate if you could upload updated logs by running "apport-collect 304201", and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

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!