I had the same problem and after much fooling around I found on my system it was caused by the evolution integration plugin.....how I solved the problem
1) delete the ~/.purple folder (after backing up the log subfolder to keep all my old recorded conversations 2) restart pidgin, setting it back up the way I like, without evolution integration and then closing pidgin and copying the log subfolder back into ~/.purple then start the program again....no problems here now I assume the buddy list sync problem had to do with old msn address' being saved in evolution Eugene -- Pop up re synchronisation issue https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187530 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