Pidgen won't connect after lastest set of updates

[Walt Corey]

Binary package hint: pidgin

I can't find debug info. On 6/20/09 I had some fixes to install and a new kernel fix, I remember as I had to reboot. Pidgen fails to connect to anything and I don't see any artifacts in system log. One other similar issue say, "oh, it fixed itself". Nice trick...does anyone know how it fixed itself?

U9.04

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: pidgin 1:2.5.5-1ubuntu8.1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic x86_64