I believe you are using Ubuntu 8.10...? Upgrade to Ubuntu 9.04 via the update manager. Using 9.04 Pidgin works fine...if you want to stay with 8.10 I do not know of any fix.
--- On Tue, 6/30/09, Lonnie <launch...@startport.com> wrote: From: Lonnie <launch...@startport.com> Subject: [Bug 389322] Re: Yahoo server authentication changed: Pidgin =<2.5.6 will not connect to Yahoo! servers. To: clombar...@yahoo.com Date: Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 6:10 PM How can you fix this problem via update manager? -- 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