IRC Channel text input field resized

[plato]

I understand that since pidgin 2.4.0 manual resizing of the text field has been removed. But when I tried to log onto an IRC channel on Pidgin 2.10.0 (running on ubuntu 11.10) the text field resized itself to be almost inpossible to do anything.
Any other conversation has the right size. And it continues if I try to reload the app.
As well as the resize, a verticle bar is added to the left and the roomlist of nicks is colour coordinated but they aren't in the atual channal
I used to use ubuntu on 10.04 with pidgin and everything ran fine without these issues

-Regards

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: pidgin 1:2.10.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.28-generic 3.0.17
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Mar 4 01:00:30 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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