I just experienced the same issue. Interestingly it went away after I retried to connect...
Perhaps this has something to do with an invalid certificate? I just found this on google: http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=2731
In short, the guy there suggests that some certificate is outdated and installing the current one fixed the problem for him.
$ uname -a Linux xxx 2.6.27-9-generic #1 SMP Thu Nov 20 22:15:32 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 8.10 pidgin version 1:2.5.2-0ubuntu1
I just experienced the same issue. Interestingly it went away after I retried to connect...
Perhaps this has something to do with an invalid certificate? I just found this on google: daemonforums. org/showthread. php?t=2731
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In short, the guy there suggests that some certificate is outdated and installing the current one fixed the problem for him.
$ uname -a
Linux xxx 2.6.27-9-generic #1 SMP Thu Nov 20 22:15:32 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 8.10
pidgin version 1:2.5.2-0ubuntu1