pidgin-msn/hotmail cannot login

[adithya.S]

Binary package hint: pidgin

the error message is: "1 account was disabled because you signed from another location:<email address hidden>, re-enable"

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: pidgin 1:2.7.3-1ubuntu3.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.49-generic 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Apr 2 19:52:23 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_IN
SourcePackage: pidgin

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[Ísis Forioni Bragaia (isisfbra)]

I started having the same problem under Ubuntu 11.04 64 bits. I have Windows 7 on dual-boot and installed Pidgin on it too. Both MSN and Gtalk work perfectly there, but only Gtalk works on Ubuntu.

This problem started yesterday (06-16-2011); Pidgin used to work with no trouble until then.

Version: Pidgin 2.7.11 (libpurple 2.7.11)
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic x86_64

[Ísis Forioni Bragaia (isisfbra)]

Today I found a way to solve it. Just had to change proxy configurations from "GNOME" to "environment".

Thank you anyway.