Duplication jabber buddy after authorization

[patrik.sima]

I use icq and jabber. I have friend with icq and jabber. I added his jabber contact, requested him and move this contact to expanded buddy. Now I see his expanded buddy which contains two contact. One icq and jabber. If my friend authorize my request Pidgin create new jabber buddy! Why? His jabber contact exists! Ok, it's a problem but i'll solve it. I deleted new jabber buddy. Do you know what's happened? Existing jabber buddy aren't authorized!

[patrik.sima]

screenshots before and after authorization (cutted)

[jcenter]

I'm experiencing the same thing. After getting the request to authorize, the dialog box opens offering to add the Alias to the buddy. When adding the alias, 2 entries are added to blist.xml, the original request & the one with the alias added. This causes 2 buddies to show up in the Buddy List. If you exit Pidgin, edit blist.xml to remove the original request & restart it, the Buddy List is ok.

[nwalp]

Can this still be duplicated with 2.0.1? The duplicate buddies should still be there (unless you resort to the editing-blist.xml fix), but it should no longer prompt you to add the buddy when they're already on your list.

[patrik.sima]

I tried delete one duplicated jabber contact and restart Pidgin. Jabber contact wasn't authorized again. So I tried re-request authorization. After authorization is everything ok.

Before: icq - authorized jabber01 - authorized, offline jabber01(duplicated) - authorized, online

After delete and restart: icq - authorized jabber01 - not-authorized, offline

After authorization: icq contact - authorized jabber01 - authorized, online

[random]

Same problem with me, see also http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/1089. Here, both sides get duplicated buddies. Interestingly, the duplicated buddies on the Adium-part differed in Jabber ID when those were not lowercase letters only.

[ryanb]

random probably meant http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/1796 .

for the record, i see this too. it looks like the jabber prpl is adding the buddy to your buddy list when it gets the auth request. then, after asking if you want to auth, pidgin asks if you want to add them to your blist. if you click cancel, you still end up with one copy of them on your buddy list, due to jabber's initial addition. if you click add, you end up with two copies.

you probably want to remove the buddy addition in the jabber prpl.

[ryanb]

this is probably the same as http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/479 . you/we might want to close one of them as a dupe.

[froztbyte]

Can this still be duplicated with 2.0.1?

I'm using Pidgin 2.0.1 (fedora 7 build) on Fedora 7 i386. Confirming this bug can be duplicated on 2.0.1 using a Jabber account. Should anyone need any further details on this please ask and I while submit any I can duplicate

[nclm]

I experienced this bug at three pidgin 2.1.1 installations and it is very annoying... is there some work going on?

[nclm]

OK, thing is after someone added me as a buddy and I authorize him, pidgin automatically adds this buddy in my list too but I don't see him because offline buddies are not shown and for me he is offline, because he did not authorized me yet. The problem is, pidgin adds this buddy in my list but don't send an authorization request...

Simple solution for now is: I activate "Show offline Buddies" right-click on that buddy and select "Re-request authorization". Voila, thats it.

[nclm]

Replying to nclm:

OK, thing is after someone added me as a buddy and I authorize him, pidgin automatically adds this buddy in my list too but I don't see him because offline buddies are not shown and for me he is offline, because he did not authorized me yet.

Just to make things clear. This is the point where the duplication comes in. I didn't see that pidgin automatically created this buddy, because

1. offline buddies are not shown

2. this buddy will "stay offline" for me, because he don't get a request (only if I select "Re-request authorization"

So i added him as new buddy and then got 2 entries...

[seanegan]

duplicate of #479