Comment 29 for bug 1108056

I tried the sru1 PPA, but it didn't work for me. I ended up with 2 pidgin processes (one of which was <defunct>), and no UI whatsoever. When I kill -HUP the living pidgin process, I'd get a quick flash of the buddy list window, and then everything would close down. pigden -d logs showed the "nobody needs me" dns message.

I tried ppa:pidgin-developers/ppa, which shows releases after the fix was committed, but I see the same UI freeze and <defunct> gsettings process as others:

$ apt-cache policy pidgin
pidgin:
  Installed: 1:2.10.7-2ubuntu0+pidgin1.13.04
  Candidate: 1:2.10.7-2ubuntu0+pidgin1.13.04
  Version table:
 *** 1:2.10.7-2ubuntu0+pidgin1.13.04 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/pidgin-developers/ppa/ubuntu/ raring/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:2.10.7-0ubuntu4.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main amd64 Packages

If I run the ppa:pidgin-developers/ppa version of pidgin in an strace, it works fine, so that's a workaround for me.

$ strace pidgin