pidgin crashed with SIGSEGV

[Brett Alton]

Binary package hint: pidgin

I ran Pidgin once, than ran it again after it looked like it didn't open, then this error appeared.

$ lsb_release -a && apt-cache policy pidgin
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10
Codename: intrepid
pidgin:
  Installed: 1:2.5.1-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 1:2.5.1-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 1:2.5.1-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Disassembly: 0xb6ce1143:
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: pidgin 1:2.5.1-0ubuntu3
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: pidgin
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/bin
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: pidgin
Stacktrace: #0 0xb6ce1143 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 lpadmin plugdev 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!.