Binary package hint: pidgin
I had Pidgin 2.5x, and saw the same problem as what I am reporting on Pidgin 2.7.0. Seems that every time I start pidgin, I get "4 new emails,' that really are not there. The problem corrects itself when a new email comes in, but that can be hours, if the message is not exited. I upgraded from 2.5.x on Ubuntu's (linux) servers, to the new 2.7.0. I thought this may correct the issue. However, it's still there. I have seen this before, which upgrades worked. I'm on Ubuntu 8.10, get updates normally, instead of getting the "deb" version from the Pidgin site. Could not get the info on "debian-pidgin-properties" to get a value. kept telling me "no command found." Tried with gnome in place of debian, with same results.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
Package: pidgin 1:2.7.0-0ubuntu1.1~pidgin1.09.04
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-19-generic i686
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package
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? Do you get the same with Maverick? Thanks in advance.