Aim/Jabber/Salut/Yahoo plugins broken

[bwat47]

The account-plugin-aim,yahoo,salut,jabber seems totally broken in 13.04. If I try to add a new account in UOA and click on any of these accounts it says "please enter account details", but below that the space to enter the account details never comes up and stays blank indefinitely. This is a regression from 12.10

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: account-plugin-aim 3.6.3-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-4.8-generic 3.8.0-rc6
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-4-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Feb 5 11:51:30 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-01-31 (5 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130129)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: empathy
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[bwat47 (bwat47)]

Booted today's raring daily and noticed it works there so I did a clean install, and now its working (for now)

[bwat47 (bwat47)]

Nope, stopped working again 5 mins after posting this. Exact same problem. The existing account I had setup and working randomly stopped being able to connect, and if I try to add a new aim account same problem as in my original report.

[Arthur H (arthurh)]

I seem to have no hang issues if I don't add an XMPP account.

After adding only AIM, Yahoo and MSN accounts, I can use pidgin, close pidgin and relaunch pidgin without issue.

After adding an XMPP account, I can use the account until I close and relaunch pidgin, at which point, I get the crash. Even tried to use finch and the behaviour seems the same. Looks like it's with the XMPP connection routines / libs, at least for me. I'll try and get stack traces and whatnot when I have a bit more time.

[Arthur H (arthurh)]

Oops! I was in the wrong bug when I last posted -- apologies! Don't know if I can delete comments or not. Was intended for: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/1109251

[Jakub Budiský (jakub-budisky-deactivatedaccount)]

Looks like duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/1116281