No users on Pidgin

[enedene]

I'm using Debian Squeeze, Pidgin 2.7.3.
When starting pidgin my accounts seems to start but I see no contacts.
Then I go to Accounts->Manage accounts and disable accounts, after enabling them again everything is fine. Every time I start Pidgin I get this problem, I have to disable/enable accounts to get my contacts on the list.

[chance2105]

Odd. I can't think of any reason why pidgin might do this. Possibly some sort of corruption / confusion over data in pidgin's configuration.

I'd create a new user on your system, and setup pidin there with your accounts. If it works, then you know the trouble is in your .purple in your home directory.

[enedene]

I've tried what you suggested, no luck. I've also tried deleting .purple directory, new directory after restart of pidgin gets created, but after starting the new account again, I have to disable and enable to see the contacts.
I really have no idea why, I never had such problems with pidgin.

[chance2105]

You may have a live bug on your hands. Google, the Debian bug tracker, and the Pidgin Bug page. Version 2.7.3 in Squeeze is the current version from the Pidgin guys. I don't see any bug reports in the Debian bugtracker that apply right off. Check through them, see if any apply, and if comfortable with your basic research, post a bug.

[enedene]

Thanks, I have found the bug. I'm not using network manager and pidgin thinks that there is no net while first connecting, starting pidgin with "-f" switch does the job, it forces it to look for connection regardless of network manager installed.

If someone is interested:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=545143