Pidgin CPU usage goes to 100% when someone says your name in channel

[Andrew Cowie]

When someone says my nick in an IRC channel, Pidgin goes into a tight loop and CPU usage zooms to 100%.

Using strace on the process shows it constantly trying to writev to fd 6, which /proc says is a socket. Bit of a dead end, though if I knew what socket it was I might be able to get learn more.

Virtually all plugins are now disabled, sound is set to "no sounds"; etc. I'd like to think that this means this isn't audio related but it's triyng to reach out to _something_, failing, and retrying. I wonder what.

AfC

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: pidgin 1:2.10.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-15.24-generic 3.0.13
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jan 3 23:13:58 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111011)
SourcePackage: pidgin
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)