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:
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 7-2ubuntu0+ pidgin1. 13.04 7-2ubuntu0+ pidgin1. 13.04 7-2ubuntu0+ pidgin1. 13.04 0 ppa.launchpad. net/pidgin- developers/ ppa/ubuntu/ raring/main amd64 Packages dpkg/status 2.10.7- 0ubuntu4. 1 0 us.archive. ubuntu. com/ubuntu/ raring/main amd64 Packages
pidgin:
Installed: 1:2.10.
Candidate: 1:2.10.
Version table:
*** 1:2.10.
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
1:
500 http://
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