Pidgin doesn't automatically log in accounts

[Ivo Wever]

Ever since the upgrade to 11.10, pidgin never recovers from being auto-started before there is a network connection. It remains in "Waiting for network connection" and never logs in its accounts. I need to go to the accounts tab and uncheck and recheck all accounts to get them to sign in.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: pidgin 1:2.10.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.21-generic 3.0.6
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 5823d95fa64f80a5737523eb4a19225e
CheckboxSystem: bb422ca46d02494cdbc459927a98bc2f
Date: Wed Oct 26 08:00:47 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-13 (12 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[KAMI (kami911)]

I have same problem with Pidgin after the update.

Other report:
http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/14754

[TomasHnyk (sup)]

Yeah, this affects lots of users:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11454289
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11040098
http://superuser.com/questions/57184/pidgin-and-empathy-cant-connect-in-ubuntu-9-04

[Daniel Ciprus (danielciprus)]

Same problem here, recently updated to 11.10, poor pidgin is waiting for connection and never connects even though connection is working.

[JasonSpradlin82 (jaspradlin)]

Same problem. Only solution is to run "pidgin -f", then it shows each connection as error connecting, but my unity icon for pidgin doesn't run with the -f (I did update the startup application though).

[TomasHnyk (sup)]

Is this still an issue for you? It does not seem to be for me.

[Ivo Wever (ivo-wever)]

No, I think the bug was fixed at some point. I haven't experienced the problem in a long time.

[TomasHnyk (sup)]

Closing it down then, if it is an issue for anybody, feel free to reopen.