I started experiencing this bug after upgrading my Jabber server
(running ejabberd) to Debian wheezy. Someone created an associated bug
report which can be found at <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=654853>.

I also started to experience this bug on a different machine (previously
not experiencing it there, even after the server upgrade) after
upgrading it to Fedora 19. The Fedora people have fixed this bug  (bug
report at <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=979052>) by
explicitly adding a dependency on the cyrus-sasl-scram library (see
<http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/pidgin.git/commit/?id=a3d3522983ef0633e960dcaefa1973c8667eb2ea>).
I can confirm that this fix works for me: the pidgin SASL module will
prefer SCRAM-SHA1 over DIGEST-MD5 and pidgin authenticates successfully.

While this probably doesn't address the underlying bug (possibly in
ejabberd) maybe Ubuntu can also ship the appropriate libraries for
SCRAM-SHA1 support in SASL and fix user experience in this way.

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #654853
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=654853

** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #979052
   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=979052

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