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indicator-me package

Pidgin account disabled on status change (MSN)

Bug #449007 reported by Miguel Branco
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indicator-me (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: indicator-applet

(I'm using fully updated 64bit Karmic)

Whenever I change my pidgin status (available, away, etc) using indicator-applet-session, pidgin says my MSN account has been disabled because I logged in from another place!

This does not happen when I use pidgin's built-in icon tray menu.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Oct 11 21:01:35 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: indicator-applet-session 0.2.0-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13.44-generic
SourcePackage: indicator-applet
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic x86_64

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Miguel Branco (arlanthir) wrote :
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Ted Gould (ted) wrote : Re: [Bug 449007] [NEW] Pidgin account disabled on status change (MSN)

On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 20:05 +0000, Miguel Branco wrote:
> Whenever I change my pidgin status (available, away, etc) using
> indicator-applet-session, pidgin says my MSN account has been disabled
> because I logged in from another place!

Do you have your MSN account configured in Empathy as well? It is
probably trying to log on there.

  status incomplete

Changed in indicator-applet (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Miguel Branco (arlanthir) wrote :

Nice guess :)
Removing my empathy accounts fixed it.

Is this the normal behavior?

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Federico Pelloni (fredp) wrote :

This problem affects me too.

I used Empathy but then installed Pidgin, so I have my account set up on both. indicator-applet-session launches empathy even if pidgin is already running, resulting in disconnecting pidgin from the net.
Indeed if someone sends a message while pidgin's account is disabled, empathy's contact list will appear as well as its notification bubble.
I guess this shouldn't be the right behaviour.

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Joel Wright (joel-wright-k) wrote :

This problem even occurs if you uninstall empathy - to fix, I've had to reinstall and delete the accounts. Certainly not the behaviour I'd desire.

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Martin Schröder (martinschroeder) wrote :

@Joel: right!
I also removed empathy, but this error occures.
Surely, libempathy-common is the problem, but I can't remove it, because that would also remove other packages, including indicator-applet-session, indicator-session, ubuntu-desktop.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

is that still an issue in lucid?

Changed in indicator-applet (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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pim (pim-pulsradio) wrote :

Yes it's still an issue in Lucid.
I've setup my account in empathy, then desinstalled empathy and installed pidgin. The bug occured at this point.
To fix it, I had to reinstall empathy, delete my MSN account, and re-desinstall empathy.
quite hard :)

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

Thanks for taking time to report this bug and helping to make ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been report bug feel free to report any other bugs you may find

affects: indicator-applet (Ubuntu) → indicator-me (Ubuntu)
Changed in indicator-me (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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