Comment 3 for bug 467837

What I found out is that when you install 9.10 ubuntu to a computer the pidgin doesn't work well at all. When you talk in pidgin from a yahoo (formated to 9.10) account to another yahoo (upgraded to 9.10 from 9.04) account, it asks to authenticate. Being on the 9.10 (orginally formated to 9.10), I could not authenticate the user in yahoo. The other user that I am talking to also has problems with his pidgin talking to me. If he talks to other yahoo accounts he doesn't have trouble. The only difference is that he orginally had 9.04 ubuntu and then upgraded to 9.10. I just installed the 9.10 version of ubuntu. Since, I reformated my computer to 9.04 ubuntu and I don't have anymore trouble with pidgin. I will be upgrading to the 9.10 version of the ubuntu instead of just installiing the 9.10. The other thing that I saw is that some of the screen savers aren't in the 9.10 version when you just install it. When you have 9.04 version of the program and then
 upgrade it to the 9.10 version all of the screen savers are there. ....Mark

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From: Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Mon, November 2, 2009 8:00:41 AM
Subject: [Bug 467837] Re: Private and not private button in pidgin

Thanks for reporting this issue.

I'm not sure what you mean by "private conversation".

Could you please give steps on how to reproduce this issue?

Also, what protocol were you communicating with?

** Visibility changed to: Public

** Changed in: pidgin (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Private and not private button in pidgin
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Status in “pidgin” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
Binary package hint: pidgin

I have enclosed the conversation that I tried to have with a friend:

started.
(21:38:40) Chuck Hubele: hi
(21:38:44) Unable to send message: The message is too large.
(21:39:03) Private conversation with chazzie1900 lost.
(21:39:08) markinmadison: how is that?
(21:41:30) markinmadison: can you see this message?
(21:41:48) Chuck Hubele: yes and now im talking with tym and its not doing that
(21:41:50) Private conversation with chazzie1900 started.

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21:40
(21:42:38) markinmadison: ok, I just quit and now restarted
(21:42:57) markinmadison: how is it now?
(21:44:08) markinmadison: Hello?
(21:44:30) markinmadison: you there?
(21:44:48) Chuck Hubele: im here
(21:44:48) Unable to send message: The message is too large.
[Image] (21:44:51) Private conversation with chazzie1900 started.
(21:44:55) Chuck Hubele: but it keeps going back to the other
21:45
(21:45:06) Unable to send message: The message is too large.

I tried to talk to a friend of mine that is also using Pidgin and it asks to authenticate and go to a private conversation. When we try to do this, it doesn't authenticate. When I try to turn off the private option, it gives me an error of "Unable to send message: The message is too large." I believe that this is a security problem because it won't go into a private conversation. What can I do about this? I would like to talk to my friend.....

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 31 21:45:38 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: pidgin 1:2.6.2-1ubuntu7
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686