Pidgin freezes on launch with no status icon or window

[Vik]

Binary package hint: pidgin

Running pidgin under Kubuntu 8.04 upgraded to latest release as of 1st November causes pidgin to silently lock up. If run from the command line, no errors are displayed. No window is shown, and no icon is displayed in the system tray, though a space is made for it. Terminating with ^C causes the space in the system tray to go away.

I have removed the .gaim directory.

If I remove the .purple directory, I can run pidgin again. This is not an idea solution, as all my account details are then obviously lost.

I'm running

Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04
Linux kereru 2.6.24-21-generic #1 SMP Tue Oct 21 23:43:45 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
pidgin 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.1

on a 2.0GHz Turion with 1600MiB free according to htop. No swap used, ample disk space.

Output of "pidgin -d" is attached.

Vik :v)

[Vik (vik-catalyst)]

The problem appears to go away if I edit .purple/prefs.xml and remove the

<item value='/usr/lib/pidgin/gevolution.so'/>

line. dpkg -S reports this file to be part of the pidgin package.

Vik :v)

[saniac (stephen-vital)]

I have experience a similar problem, intermittently. Running pidgin via strace, it stalls trying to open an orbit socket.

If one removes the linc- file out of /tmp/<user> that it was trying to open, it works again.

I have a stock, frequently updated Hardy install.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04? Thanks in advance.

[walec51 (me-adamwalczak)]

I have a similar experience on Ubuntu 8.04.
I've attached the debug log. The freeze happened on 13:55:48.
This only happens when Pidgin is set to auto-connect on start up.
When I type pidgin -n it always works fine.

[Vik (vik-catalyst)]

Now using 8.10

Have since moved to xchat, but tried pidgin and it now starts. Did not conduct exhaustive testing :)

Vik :v)

[walec51 (me-adamwalczak)]

Upgraded to 8.10 too. Bug seems to be fixed now.

[Lionel Dricot (ploum-deactivatedaccount)]

Bug fixed according to both reporters.