Try running Pidgin from terminal...then... you can try closing all pidgins and run:
mv ~/.purple ~/.purple_old and rerun pidgin. If it works then you have 2 choices: 1, rename back and attempt to troubleshoot the profile as it is corrupted somewhere (hard) 2, rebuild a fresh profile with your accounts and settings (easy) The old profile is not deleted, only renamed. This allows an easy rollback path. If the app still doesnt work, you can rename back then run: sudo apt-get --purge remove pidgin; sudo apt-get --purge autoremove; sudo apt-get clean; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install pidgin Which will reinstall a fresh version of pidgin from the repositorys. --- On Thu, 8/20/09, Chandria <midnight_moonlight_da...@yahoo.com> wrote: From: Chandria <midnight_moonlight_da...@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [Bug 389322] Re: Yahoo server authentication changed: Pidgin =<2.5.6 will not connect to Yahoo! servers. To: clombar...@yahoo.com Date: Thursday, August 20, 2009, 1:36 PM Pidgin 2.5.8 Firefox 3.0.13 ________________________________ From: clombard <clombar...@yahoo.com> To: midnight_moonlight_da...@yahoo.com Sent: Thursday, 20 August, 2009 17:31:25 Subject: Re: [Bug 389322] Re: Yahoo server authentication changed: Pidgin =<2.5.6 will not connect to Yahoo! servers. hello...what version of Firefox and Pidgin are you using...? --- On Thu, 8/20/09, saasitah <fekub...@yahoo.com> wrote: From: saasitah <fekub...@yahoo.com> Subject: [Bug 389322] Re: Yahoo server authentication changed: Pidgin =<2.5.6 will not connect to Yahoo! servers. To: clombar...@yahoo.com Date: Thursday, August 20, 2009, 8:33 AM ok, mine is about yahoo. it just keeps on hanging and i have to restart firefox each and every time. This happens on different machines at times not, please help out am stranded -- Yahoo server authentication changed: Pidgin =<2.5.6 will not connect to Yahoo! servers. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/389322 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of a duplicate bug. -- Yahoo server authentication changed: Pidgin =<2.5.6 will not connect to Yahoo! servers. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/389322 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of a duplicate bug. Status in Hardy Heron Backports: Invalid Status in Pidgin: Fix Committed Status in “pidgin” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in pidgin in Ubuntu Dapper: Won't Fix Status in pidgin in Ubuntu Hardy: Confirmed Status in pidgin in Ubuntu Intrepid: Confirmed Status in pidgin in Ubuntu Jaunty: Fix Released Status in pidgin in Ubuntu Karmic: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: pidgin Just hangs trying to connect to yahoo. all other account types seem to be working fine just not yahoo. pidgin 2.5.5 ==================================== pidgin debug log : (09:19:46) account: Connecting to account MyYahooAccount (09:19:46) connection: Connecting. gc = 0x8e3e1c8 (09:19:46) dns: DNS query for 'scs.msg.yahoo.com' queued (09:19:46) dns: DNS child 5936 no longer exists (09:19:46) dns: Created new DNS child 6064, there are now 1 children. (09:19:46) dns: Successfully sent DNS request to child 6064 (09:19:48) dns: Got response for 'scs.msg.yahoo.com' (09:19:48) dnsquery: IP resolved for scs.msg.yahoo.com (09:19:48) proxy: Attempting connection to 76.13.15.32 (09:19:48) proxy: Connecting to scs.msg.yahoo.com:5050 with no proxy (09:19:48) proxy: Connection in progress (09:19:49) proxy: Connecting to scs.msg.yahoo.com:5050. (09:19:49) yahoo: 96 bytes to read, rxlen is 116 (09:19:49) yahoo: Yahoo Service: 0x57 Status: 1 (09:19:49) yahoo: yahoo status: 12 ==================================== ping to yahoo server : ping scs.msg.yahoo.com PING scs.msg.yahoo.com (76.13.15.36) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from cs108.msg.ac4.yahoo.com (76.13.15.36): icmp_seq=1 ttl=48 time=638 ms 64 bytes from cs108.msg.ac4.yahoo.com (76.13.15.36): icmp_seq=2 ttl=48 time=628 ms 64 bytes from cs108.msg.ac4.yahoo.com (76.13.15.36): icmp_seq=3 ttl=48 time=659 ms 64 bytes from cs108.msg.ac4.yahoo.com (76.13.15.36): icmp_seq=4 ttl=48 time=817 ms 64 bytes from cs108.msg.ac4.yahoo.com (76.13.15.36): icmp_seq=5 ttl=48 time=659 ms ==================================== netstat : tcp 0 0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:49159 76.13.15.32:5050 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:52467 68.180.217.8:5050 ESTABLISHED ==================================== ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: pidgin 1:2.5.5-1ubuntu8.1 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: pidgin Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686 -- Yahoo server authentication changed: Pidgin =<2.5.6 will not connect to Yahoo! servers. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/389322 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of a duplicate bug. -- Yahoo server authentication changed: Pidgin =<2.5.6 will not connect to Yahoo! servers. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/389322 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs