pidgin hangs while connecting to gtalk and msn

[purple_robot]

when i start my pidgin, it offers me to type my gtalk pass and then just blocks itself [all pidgin-related windows become gray and don't respond to anything]. i don't receive any error messages
this isn't the first time this has happened - the last time [which was like a week ago], i uninstalled and reinstalled pidgin, and it worked just fine... until today...
i used it last night, didn't update in the meantime, just switched to windows, used msn live messenger and turned the computer off. and now it won't work. don't tell me to use other im clients, because - i don't like them, and i don't want to reinstall every time this happens...

any suggestions?
thanks in advance

[Magnus S (magnuss)]

Thanks for the report. Is this bug still reproducible?
If so, please attach a backtrace following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Backtrace.

//magnus

[Sid (rikard-cidh)]

Sorry, that computer is now an Ubuntu 8.10 server without graphical interface, so i cant recreate the problem.

[purple_robot (belizec)]

it's not still reproducible... after upgrading to ubuntu 8.10, everything worked just fine

[Magnus S (magnuss)]

Okay, thats both good news and bad news... now we cant figure out what caused the bug.
If you run into this problem again, please reopen the bug by setting the status back to "new".

Thanks again for the report, and promise me to report any other bugs you find out there:)

//magnus
(closing)

[Sid (rikard-cidh)]

Well, I posted this 24th of May this year, have changed os version severaltimes since that event ;P

But the problem did persist as long as i ran 8.04 LTS. Dit not experience it in 8.10 though. Well, well, if it happens again, i will "shout" here.

Thanx for your time!