全新安装 Ubuntu 11.10 后，Pidgin 停止连接到任何 Jabber 服务（Google Talk 和本地 IM）。奇怪的是，相同的配置适用于装有 Ubuntu 11.10 的笔记本电脑，但不适用于工作站。该.purple目录已经从笔记本电脑拷贝到工作站，它仍然无法正常工作。运行时piding -d > pidgin.log，观察到以下内容：
(16:06:25) account: Connecting to account foo@gmail.com/.
(16:06:25) connection: Connecting. gc = 0x7f38e3828ea0
(16:06:25) dnssrv: querying SRV record for gmail.com: _xmpp-client._tcp.gmail.com
(16:06:25) dnssrv: found 5 SRV entries
(16:06:25) dnsquery: Performing DNS lookup for xmpp.l.google.com
(16:06:25) dns: Wait for DNS child 11596 failed: No child processes
(16:06:25) dns: Created new DNS child 11867, there are now 1 children.
(16:06:25) dns: Successfully sent …