Comment 8 for bug 307590

I've also been experiencing the same behaviour for some time now, exactly as Thelasko laid out in the description. I, too, realize gufw is just a gui & whether it's running or not shouldn't have an affect on anything once ufw is enabled, but this is what appears to be happening. On a fresh install of Xubuntu 8.10:

Installed pidgin, installed gufw
Ran gufw, checked 'Firewall enabled' box, closed gufw
Reboot system, connect to internet
"$ status ufw" reports 'Status: loaded'
Run pidgin -> accounts cannot connect (AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Jabber)
Run gufw -> now pidgin's accounts suddenly *can* connect..

Upon reboot, pidgin cannot connect again until I run gufw. I have however noticed that for whatever reason, if I don't run gufw, but wait a while, pidgin will find itself able to connect after several minutes (~15?).

Maybe this is just something silly & simple we're just overlooking? It's frustrating, nonetheless. >_<