pidgin locking up

[Rahabib]

Binary package hint: pidgin

2.7.3 crashes shortly after launching on ubuntu 10.10 64. works on another computer with same build and account. not sure what is causing the issue. Ill start a conversation or recieve one. send one message and then it stops responding. the buddy list turns grey and I cant close the application. I must force quit the application. Empathy works fine.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: pidgin 1:2.7.3-1ubuntu3.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.41-generic 2.6.35.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Mar 9 10:00:40 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

I think I'm experiencing something similar but only since the last day or so and apparently only when chatting with Yahoo contacts.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

My problem was related to the Evolution Integration plugin. Can you try to start pidgin without any plugins running?

Please close all running instances of pidgin/purple, make a backup of your ~/.purple directory, then remove ~/.purple/prefs.xml and restart pidgin. This will disable plugins.

[Rahabib (balhorns)]

sorry guys. I forgot I submitted this bug a long time ago.

The problem was actually related to the GFire plugin. I got that fixed. The latest version of GFire has the same issue in 11.10, but its been reported to the Gfire team. So for me, I just had to remove GFire and wait for a patch.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

moving over to gfire