Bug 202851 – net-im/pidgin fails to read its account information

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Nicolai Stange 2007-12-20 10:54:12 UTC]

Hi,
my pidgin looses my ICQ account every time when I restart it, but only if I say "Save password". If I tell it the password everytime everything goes well.
Note that the .purple/accounts.xml still holds the account with ICQ UIN and password.

Thank you

Nicolai

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a new ICQ account, tell pidgin to remember my password
2. Stop it, start it

Actual Results:  
No ICQ account avaiable in pidgin anymore

Expected Results:  
There should be my new account

[Comment 1 Nicolai Stange 2007-12-20 10:55:27 UTC]

Created attachment 138966 [details]
emerge --info

[Comment 2 Nicolai Stange 2007-12-20 10:57:20 UTC]

Created attachment 138967 [details]
$HOME/.purple/accounts.xml

I cleared my UIN and my password

[Comment 3 Nicolai Stange 2007-12-20 11:00:13 UTC]

Sorry, I forgot 'pidgin --version':
Pidgin 2.3.1

[Comment 4 Rasmus Wiman 2008-03-25 19:34:13 UTC]

I have this problem whenever there is an error when I exit pidgin. The easiest way to test this is to simply shut down networking before eitting pidgin. Every account in .purple/accounts.xml will contain a <current_error> entry upon restart.  Deleting these entries will make pidgin detect the accounts upon next restart.

[Comment 5 Olivier Crete (RETIRED) 2008-04-01 02:15:43 UTC]

definitely an upstream problem