pidgin hangs after starting, I need to kill it

[Juan Jose Amor Iglesias]

Binary package hint: pidgin

I'm testing Ubuntu 8.10 beta w/ updates. Last update (two days ago) left the pidgin unusable: it hangs after starting.

Version running: 1:2.5.1-0ubuntu3

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Disassembly: 0xb6bce143:
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: pidgin 1:2.5.1-0ubuntu3
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: pidgin
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: pidgin
Stacktrace: #0 0xb6bce143 in ?? ()
StacktraceTop: ?? ()
ThreadStacktrace:

Title: pidgin crashed with SIGSEGV
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse kvm lpadmin plugdev vboxusers video

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StacktraceTop:?? ()

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your bug report. Please try to obtain a backtrace http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and attach the file to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.