pidgin crashes on startup

[Antoni Kudelski]

Pidgin 2.10.2 (libpurple 2.10.2) craches every time on startup. The only way to help is to kill process, and every time is the same. Im using standard options only with Gadu-Gadu account.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: pidgin 1:2.10.2-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-21.34-generic 3.2.13
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Apr 1 09:42:14 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120322)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
SourcePackage: pidgin
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Krzysztof Dryja (cih997)]

Show log: pidgin -d

If you got something like:

"(10:09:55) proxy: Connected to api.gadu-gadu.pl:80.
dns[12584]: nobody needs me... =(
dns[12586]: nobody needs me... =(
dns[12588]: nobody needs me... =(
dns[12533]: nobody needs me... =("

More info:

http://ubuntu.pl/forum/viewtopic.php?f=127&t=152233 (PL)
http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/14305 (some patch)
http://ubuntu.pl/forum/viewtopic.php?f=132&t=155702 (PL)

2.10.3 bug still exists.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Krzysztof Dryja (cih997)]

1. Bug appears often but not always.

2. After remove some buddies from blist.xml (gadugadu protocol) bug disappear.