Description of problem:

pidgin stops displaying new messages in IRC.

After using pidgin for a while; perhaps switching channels, pidgin loses some of the conversation that was previously had and stops displaying new information from the IRC server.


Last night I was having a conversation over pidgin and at one point the channel seemed to go quiet.  I assumed the other person had left and so I went away.  This morning, there was no new information in the channel (messages or information about people connecting/disconnecting) so I knew something wasn't right.  I closed and restarted pidgin.  The log of the last session's messages showed the transcripts of people talking to me, talking to each other, and the connect/disconnects from the night.

Today, I was having a conversation.  Switched tabs, wrote something in the other channel, switched back, and found that the last part of my conversation was no longer shown.  I typed in a message and got no reply.  After a little waiting I decided that pidgin was no longer showing information in the channel.  So I quit pidgin via pidgin's menu and restarted.  Pidgin's log in this case has my message that was not replied to and does not contain the missing piece of conversation.  I don't know what would have happened if I hadn't written anything.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.5.5-1.fc10.i386

How reproducible:

I've had this happen last night and today.  I haven't tracked down a trigger condition yet.  this version of pidgin was installed on March 12.