pidgin freezes / crashes

[medic]

it just seem to hang...
i have to kill -KILL it...

a gdb backtrace reveals this here:

Program received signal SIGPIPE, Broken pipe.
0x00007ffff4b36c5d in write () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00007ffff4b36c5d in write () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
#1 0x00007fffe5807927 in irc_send_len () from /usr/lib/purple-2/libirc.so
#2 0x00007fffe5805359 in irc_cmd_quit () from /usr/lib/purple-2/libirc.so
#3 0x00007fffe58068c7 in ?? () from /usr/lib/purple-2/libirc.so
#4 0x00007ffff50a3f26 in _purple_connection_destroy ()
   from /usr/lib/libpurple.so.0
#5 0x00007ffff508fa5e in purple_account_disconnect ()
   from /usr/lib/libpurple.so.0
#6 0x00007ffff50a31c5 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpurple.so.0
#7 0x00007ffff53c6b1b in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#8 0x00007ffff53c5f05 in g_main_context_dispatch ()
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#9 0x00007ffff53c6248 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#10 0x00007ffff53c66ba in g_main_loop_run ()
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#11 0x00007ffff663efe7 in gtk_main ()
   from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#12 0x000055555558f419 in main ()

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: pidgin 1:2.10.7-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-16.26-generic 3.8.5
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Apr 10 22:55:24 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-03-29 (743 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-05 (5 days ago)

[medic (medic123)]

I can reproduce this problem by enabling my IRC Accounts

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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