Thank you so much for the reply. I fixed it for my self and had not check my mail box since.
I accidentally used "sudo pidgin" and found that it did remember my account settings, then I made a copy of the setting file and remove ./purple and made a new one. It worked! Thanks again and I am having fun with Ubuntu. Regards, Chiu-Cheng Liu ________________________________ From: bruno.braga <bruno.br...@gmail.com> To: j...@ymail.com Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 9:58:43 AM Subject: [Bug 331863] Re: Account settings not saved I did not have a lock in my ~/.purple folder, but it was owned by root user. drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K 2009-06-06 00:02 .purple (the folder here only had plugins folder with a single file) For that reason, the application did not seem to be able to write in that folder. By changing this configuration, as manishmahabir specified earlier, with the following command, I could solve this issue: sudo chown user:user ~/.purple/ (where user is your current username, or the username logged in) The result is: drwxr-xr-x 3 user user 4.0K 2009-06-06 00:02 .purple Once I started the application again, the files were successfully saved (my personal accounts, etc). -- Account settings not saved https://bugs..launchpad.net/bugs/331863 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. Status in “pidgin” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: pidgin OS: Ubuntu 8.10 - the Intrepid Ibex - released in October 2008. I have setup my gtalk, yahoo accounts on Pidgin. But when computer is restarted the accounts are not saved and have to be set again. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal Package: pidgin 1:2.5.2-0ubuntu1 ProcEnviron: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: pidgin Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686 -- Account settings not saved https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331863 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
