starting pidgin brings up an IRC window with a wrong password

[Boycraft]

Binary package hint: pidgin

I expect it not to connect (or autoconnect without any problems)

Starting it brings up a chat with the following:
(03:52:36) NickServ: (notice) This nickname is registered. Please choose a different nickname, or identify via /msg NickServ identify <password>.
(03:52:36) NickServ: (notice) Invalid password for Boycraft.

I am registered at #ubuntu-ru with a password. I think it tries to connect without a password.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: pidgin 1:2.5.2-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=ru_UA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

[J. Austin Rodriguez (jeanaustinr)]

I can confirm this still occurring in Pidgin 2.6.6. But in order to fix this, you need to either enter the correct password in for your IRC Account or ask someone from the irc.freenode.net to reset your password.

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

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 a current, supported, Ubuntu version. Thanks in advance.

[J. Austin Rodriguez (jeanaustinr)]

Based on the last comment and the age of this bug report, I am changing its status from Incomplete to Fix Released.