20100715

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100 New Bugs

To mark it off the list you should:

  • Verify the bug is still not fixed
  • Request any needed info, Subscribe, Status to incomplete or

  • Set status to Confirmed

Bug

Subject

Triager

603816

pidgin crashed with SIGSEGV

trinikrono

603655

creating a group of contact in pidgin doesn't add the first contact into the group

602532

Pidgin causes KDE tray to grow to excessive size over time

601130

Pidgin hangs when a gmail user initiates a voice chat

596777

some times chat window freezes after clicking "close" button

596426

So tiny "×" to click to close tabs

evfool

596382

Sending URLs in ICQ doesn't work

596321

pidgin crashed with SIGSEGV

594167

i cannot hear the other person speak.....the other person can hear me speak

trinikrono

593477

Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

micahg

588931

pidgin crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_cast()

588305

pidgin crashes on after few seconds of work (when connect with icq established)

587504

Pidgin disconnects from ICQ and myspace when setting status through MeMenu

585697

messenger not working

evfool

580371

it doesnt start at all

577069

mot de passe incorrect?

ilidrissi.amine

574811

cannot sign in from presence menu

572760

Changing status using indicator-me applet causes pidgin to sign out, and signs in empathy instead

569183

not run

ilidrissi.amine

569078

Pidgin perl plugin signals aren't triggered

568142

Updating Pigin to use Yahoo.Messenger

567063

error reading the information file error 0x000b error formating the the user name because the user name is too long.

566699

icq authorization requests are shown in wrong encoding

566229

pidgin crashed with SIGFPE in g_cclosure_marshal_VOIDVOID()

565467

Should remember languages selected for spell checking, ideally per-contact

565465

Should allow more than one language for spell checking

trothigar

564780

[lucid beta] pidgin freezes everytime

trinikrono

564161

unable to use avatar on pidgin - 'gadu-gadu' protocol

563631

pidgin crashed with SIGSEGV in strcpy_chk()

561937

finch 2.5.2-0ubuntu1.7 FTBFS

micahg

561801

closing the buddy list doesn't actually exit the application

560752

cant start pidgin

drew212

556590

MSN account become unavalivable when send a off line message

556430

pidgin assert failure: *** glibc detected *** pidgin: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x0a361900 ***

556108

Pidgin Instant Messanger Voice Call No sound on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid

554455

status message does not appear when status set to busy or away

554260

Process uses 100% CPU

550275

hardy power pc needs upgrade path 2.6.6 for yahoo logins

549135

1:2.6.2-1ubuntu7.2 update regresses the ui of formatting toolbar

547020

Clear formatting button does not work

545292

Message notifications leave empty space in notification area after disappearing

545136

Pidgin package should bring security tools such as pidgin-otr as recommends

trinikrono

545127

pidgin-encryption doesn't work if pidgin-otr is installed

micahg

540367

"is now known as" message uses username instead of alias

537231

pidgin randomly quits during conversation

535492

closes unexpectedly as I login.

534881

PulseAudio's Pidgin volume control slider keeps disappearing before I can adjust it

534367

myspace contact can't be merged

534062

pidgin keeps crashing

drew212

533596

Empathy QQ client version should be qq2008

micahg

533590

difficulty adding "buddies" to pidgin from msn protocal

530423

pidgin never remembers msn friendlyname

529187

Avatar and past logs not appearing with AIM and Yahoo! Messenger on Pidgin.

528785

pidgin indicator applet name is too long

521230

Fails to send files

520814

pidgin crashes when conected to wlm

drew212

518869

crashes when enabling MSN (pecan) account

518353

People tend to fail to send me messages on MSN. Happens on random occassions.

518046

Unable to set status

517718

amarokpidgin plugin gets activated but music status is not appearing on buddy list

517147

New sametime session doesn't auto logout original

516138

Never ending authorisation request for Yahoo user

514760

33 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/send.c: No such file or directory.

514750

Pidgin crashes when getting doing calls using the XMPP protocol

drew212

514133

audio/video call does not work with Logitech QuickCam 4000 Pro (pwc module)

511731

user switcher applet does not recognize pidgin in karmic

510496

not been able to connect on google talk.

508583

Online users show time in indicator-applet

507481

Pidgin freezes when pasting code in the conversation windows

506173

MSN plugin and WLM plugin both not work

505798

Buddy list gradually get's wider.

505448

Pidgin consumes almost 100% memory and CPU with libnotify

504363

Buddies disappear from list randomly

502250

pidgin ignores system time settings regarding 24/12h clock

502150

pidgin got mad and uses 4GB RAM

501548

pigin crashes in conversations preview

drew212

501184

chat in gtalk and gmail

500950

could not log in

drew212

500251

Custom smileys with non-standard image-size are shown squeezed and not-animated in preview panel, although the same smiley-image in theme are previewed fine

500131

gmail buddies are too wide

496678

sh: cannot create : Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character

496075

pidgin crashes with a "Trace/breakpoint trap" message

495885

Pidgin should depend on gstreamer-esd

495881

Pidgin isn't in the indicator-applet after closing

494574

I am not able to connect or reconnect on Pidgin

494251

pidgin MSN autentication failure

494028

no me deja empezar sesion

493719

MSN name changes on Login to Email(2).

493200

pidgin rather chatty on dbus with an MSN account active

489017

i cant log in

yofel

488966

pidgin msn closes suddenly with no reason and no error display

488847

A group disappears from buddy list in the en_US.utf8 locale

488556

seems only have one contact

487294

when pidgin open a lot of window open too to say that some contact have not a valid name

486779

ICQ plugin should support text formating

484263

pidgin should use low urgency on logon notifications

483094

video chat with only one party having a camera

482106

confirming contacts with each logging

481738

Font Size Only Changes with English

480946

Pidgin taking 100+% CPU at random times

evfool

78 Incomplete Bugs

To mark it off the list you should:

  • Change the bug's status to "Confirmed" or "Triaged" if the reporter replied with enough information or

  • Ask a secondary follow up question and subscribe to the bug report

Bug

Subject

Triager

583118

Setting pidgin as invisible shows as away on gtalk network

kamus

573844

Pidgin crash by contact rename

kamus

571873

Error reading the file information error 0x0001 can't format the user name

kamus

569703

IRC support problems

558586

pidgin crashed with SIGSEGV

kamus

556737

MSN Buddy List Disappeared After Pidgin Closed

kamus

555463

Pidgin keeps shuting down

kamus

534713

Pidgin crashed

521853

messenger...protocole n'est pas supporté par le serveur

kamus

518071

i can see all my buddies 0/0 and nothing

kamus

501592

Changing Nick Name not reflecting the users window on IRC with Pidgin

kamus

499824

messaggistica istantanea

kamus

496121

Empathy steals Pidgin online status

493118

when i close my pidgin buddy window, it cant see anywhere in the panel.. And my account is also offline.

kamus

483009

Pidgin silently crashed with SIGSEGV due to pn_peer_call_free() in libmsn-pecan

477538

Pidgin's window is closed sometimes

kamus

477227

pidgin crashed with SIGSEGV in malloc()

kamus

471086

pidgin crashed with SIGSEGV in malloc()

kamus

467837

Private and not private button in pidgin

445188

When press 'f', there is New Message window is opening

kamus

416503

Pidgin is crashed out by other im clients being closed during a bonjour session

kamus

404499

My friends list (Yahoo Messenger) is not appear.

kamus

404046

pidgin crashes whenever my internet is connected

kamus

397323

Pidgin opens local executables when clicked on file:// links

kamus

396711

problem with pidgin are scrabbles

kamus

396703

Irc Add button doesnt changes to Remove after adding # to favorites.

kamus

390379

cannot acess net.passport

kamus

388354

Buddy list synchronization issue

kamus

384356

[Jabber/XMPP conferences] xhtml tags in nicknames

kamus

384238

skype plugin for pidgin is not synchron

kamus

382732

no can write letter "o"

kamus

382139

Jaunty: Pidgin can't start properly after crash

kamus

379553

new conversation window in pidgin not opening by moved toolbar

377695

send mail doesn`t work

kamus

375752

Pidgin uses to much CPU

kamus

374421

Pidgin default encoding should be Latin/Unicode Hybrid

373058

irc window does not close

kamus

371281

pidgin evolution plugin, Evolution hang

371213

pidgin doesn't add new contact

kamus

370450

Pidgin impossible sent a message

kamus

368899

group closes instead of being renamed

kamus

367312

opening new window scrolls to middle of window instead to bottom

kamus

367228

Pidgin freeze by group fusion

kamus

365087

Pidgin doesnt retain google talk settings

364518

Pidgin hangs on sending picture in message with gadu-gadu protocol

363221

pidgin on jaunty is lagging and sticks when typing for a couple seconds

362645

pidgin crashed with SIGSEGV in purple_connection_error()

362322

pidgin crashed with SIGSEGV in free()

362100

pidgin crashed while in another workspace - SIGPIPE

360490

pidgin crashed with SIGSEGV in kernel_vsyscall()

360190

Pidgin crashed in a File>Quit after being re-opened from the notificaiton area

357108

During file transfer, the GNOME file browser appears but is in an incomplete and unusable state.

354967

pidgin crashes after extended use

343899

Pidgin crashes often and leads to xorg zap

341142

Contact list doesn't always come on top

338754

Aim, Msn and Gadu-Gadu often don't work.

335790

copying smileys when chatting

325494

pidgin randomly crashes

320970

HTML Log should reflect formatting changes

316255

pidgin Crash frequently with munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0x6bb112b0

314219

pidgin won't add custom emoticons

304201

pidgin creates mysterious chat room

yofel

299077

Better feedback after receiving a file

yofel

298702

wrong text colors when dark or other non-default color sheme used

290293

MSN disconnects when setting status or log in as "invisible"

289505

[Intrepid] pidgin transfers files at very low speeds (msn)

micahg

282853

Pidgin reports MSN contacts with mobile number always online

282589

When adding a Pidgin buddy from Evolution contacts wrong protocol type is used

257753

Can't block a contact with jabber protocol

234418

can't sort group names

227325

*** glibc detected *** pidgin: malloc(): memory corruption (fast):

225505

Pidgin's auto-reconnect does not always reconnect

206523

pidgin crashed with SIGSEGV in g_slice_free_chain_with_offset()

175580

file-transfer dialog does not resize when turning "details" off

162701

pidgin freezes while typing a message

157666

pidgin keeps stealing focus from its own password dialog

70659

gaim causes warnings on trillian clients

54127

Certain windows steal focus

100 Confirmed Bugs

To mark it off the list you should:

  • Verify the bug is still not fixed
  • Request any needed info, Subscribe, Status to incomplete or
  • Set status to triaged UbuntuBugControl

Bug

Subject

Triager

566985

google talk is never authorized / fails to connect

539516

Pidgin introduces spurious uneditable public status message, without user's permission.

533409

pidgin do not minimize to notification applet

523996

Contacts using GTalk on Android phones makes pidgin alert very often

497811

System tray icon doesn't fit with transparent panel

487210

never logs , spin-ing wheel frozz , at bottom "available" box on Pidgin window

479409

pidgin started to swap, taking up a huge amount of memory

470723

Pidgin stops responding on starting an audio call

424861

Gadu-Gadu Invisible status

422611

pidgin room list hangs when name (for sorting) is pressed while list is still updating

421711

Pidgin MSN chat/switchboard timeout error

421598

new massage

399632

Can't open my Gmail account in Pidgin

393511

Pidgin is always at Available - connecting and will never connect. My internet is working, but Pidgin won't connect at all.

391380

When I connect to Jabber MUC Pidgin crashes.

379473

pidgin crashed with SIGFPE in g_hash_table_lookup()

378738

Pigin segfault when closing chat window

376975

Can't choose group

372833

Pidgin doesn't show all MSN smileys using msn-pecan protocol

363103

If you type "/quit" when on irc channel in pidgin,its closing and channel self deleting from list

360328

pidgin crashed with SIGSEGV in xmlParseChunk()

357229

pidgin freezes when using sound

355329

Apps should display a system tray icon when the messaging menu is not available

351935

Notifications in Pidgin are changed without permission

349431

logged out while closing Pidgin main window

346554

indicator-applet fails to bring pidgin to foreground

344646

pidgin update from ubuntu 8.10 causes over 500+ processes

344316

pidgin will not open I reinstalled it will appear now but not open..

343120

Cannot send or receive files (not at all)

342680

pidgin crashed with SIGSEGV in pidgin_conv_switch_active_conversation()

337839

The 'Unable To Retrieve Buddy List' dialog is recreated every few seconds

334636

starting pidgin brings up an IRC window with a wrong password

331863

Account settings not saved

331067

[Jaunty] Pidgin reports "Proxy configuration program was not found."

329584

Pidgin crashes when sending only breakline

327512

pidgin hangs on space after unbroken wrapped line

326252

Pidgin crashed with glibc "/usr/bin/pidgin: free(): invalid pointer: 0xbf846390"

325723

pidgin crashed with SIGILL

325243

pidgin crashed with SIGSEGV in clone()

324953

icq invisible status does not hide me at default

320370

Pidgin pop-up doesn't work on ubuntu 8.04-gnome

316129

Pidgin crashes at startup

311569

pidgin crashes in Preferences (Intrepid)

311503

different window sizes for different protocols

306923

pidgin doen't show OS version via XMPP

304127

Pidgin doesn't realize when the 'friendly name' is too long

302132

Pidgin memory leak on Intrepid

300988

Cannot connect to yahoo server from behind a proxy

299029

using the fast user switch applet or notification area icon to change pidgin status doesn't retain status message

298314

Regressions in the Bonjour protocol on Pidgin 2.5.2 (Intrepid Ibex)

micahg

294547

User Switcher Applet (FUSA) icons do not match Pidgin

294080

Pidgin does not respond after I send any text to my friend

290277

Hide new IM conversation setting acts like 'never' when set to 'always'

289256

cannot connect to myspace im. showing Server has disconnected.

278534

Pidgin feature request

278499

wrong error mesage in swedish translation of irc server connection.

274541

Pidgin 2.5.1 unblocks all blocked MSN contacts

274441

pidgin crashed with SIGSEGV in g_main_context_dispatch()

273851

The "Play a sound" in the alert manager is continuing to play instead of stopping when the window of the "alert" is closed.

272683

Allow to drag your own avatar

272632

Pidgin freezes sporadically in Intrepid

270286

Closing the new mail dialog with multiple email sources sometimes crashes pidgin

268730

TLS certificate details are inadequate

261630

pidgin crashed with SIGSEGV in free()

260968

Can't "alias on some protocols, ICQ being one.

260843

Error Reading blist.xml with utf-8 characters in group-descriptions

259075

Filetransfer Window stays always on top

258471

pidgin crashed with signal 7 in g_shell_quote()

255972

Have to login manually when opening Hotmail inbox

micahg

254887

jabber contacts that are deleted at server-side still remain on the client-side list

254818

pidgin opens then closes

253980

pidgin randomly crashes with Segmentation fault

252103

"New instant message" dialog should strip space at the end of a Jabber address if present

250075

Clear Scrollback should have a query by default, as it cannot be undone

248679

pidgin crashes

245685

Account list don't display. Pidgin doesn't work

242403

Difficult with sending link to MSN buddy

241926

the group name of QQ can't show normally

239435

It doesn't show my avatar with the Yahoo Protocol!

237772

pidgin, not allowing to see previous buddy icons

237287

Spellchecker set to locale language

236813

purple-remote doesn't find libpurple instance

236446

New message doesn't raise pidgin window

234175

Please provide some way to control whether emoticons are replaced in screen names

231266

Cannot resize text input area in Pidgin

230677

Don't overwrite symbolic links to settings files with proper files

226974

Pidgin stores passwords in plain text

226692

pidgin hogs all system memory

222583

Pidgin does not show the correct protocol name and icon

221956

moving a buddy to another group caused deleting the buddy

217611

apturl support

216842

pidgin crashed while sending a file (when clicked 'open')

216460

pidgin program icon doesn't scale

212546

pidgin no longer flashes/notifies on taskbar upon receipt of message

204720

Status Message undeletable

200392

Extreme memory leak in Pidgin when attempting to play sound

200047

Pidgin doesn't autoconnect when on ppp network.

194806

Hint: if you want, you can add #ubuntu by default to Pidgin

189550

Loging in notification in IRC

187574

The pidgin notification icon does not resize when increasing the panel width

Progress

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More Bugs

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