1. the specific steps or actions you took that caused you to encounter
the problem,
opened pidgin and added my gmail and yahoo account on being asked to add
account.connected successfully.
exited.
atarted pidgin from menu.
pidgin again asked to add account as it did on first run. did not save the
earlier saved account information.
2. the behavior you expected, and
i had expected it to save my account information
3 what i did..
went to home directory. view hidden files. .purple directory had a lock on it.
opened nautilus as root.
changed the owner and group of the .purple directory to user.
exit nautilus.
started pidgin again.
prompted to add account as on first run.
entered account...both yahoo and gmail....could connect with yahoo but NOT
gmail.
exited and started again...could connect with both.(was not asked to add
account info...it was saved...as expected.
** Changed in: pidgin (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Confirmed
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