Updating to 2.10.7 does not resolve the issue (current version in raring repo, as of today's date).
Killing indicator-messages-service as suggested above also does not resolve the issue for me.
'nohup'ping and tossing in the background as suggested above does not help.
Removing ~/.purple and re-configuring the account does seem to allow pidgin to work (tried twice) for that launch. Exiting and relaunching then exhibits the hang.
A bit of info from my testing:
Updating to 2.10.7 does not resolve the issue (current version in raring repo, as of today's date).
Killing indicator- messages- service as suggested above also does not resolve the issue for me.
'nohup'ping and tossing in the background as suggested above does not help.
Removing ~/.purple and re-configuring the account does seem to allow pidgin to work (tried twice) for that launch. Exiting and relaunching then exhibits the hang.