Pidgin seems to crash (or vanish) randomly

[Joseph Crawford]

Binary package hint: pidgin

I will be using Pidgin throughout the day and it will vanish about 4-5 times. When I say vanish I mean all open chat windows, buddy list and even the icon in the status bar at the top of the screen.

I have run gdm on this however when pidgin vanished and I had to quit running pidgin to get back to the (gdb) line then the buddy list just appeared but was hanging in an unresponsive state. I got the backtrace and will attach it to this ticket.

Ubuntu Information

jocrawfo@jcrawford-laptop:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10

Package

pidgin 1:2.73-1ubuntu3.2

Expected
Pidgin would run until I closed it

Actual Result
Pidgin vanishes from view (not entirely sure it closes but relaunching always fixes)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: pidgin 1:2.7.3-1ubuntu3.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-24.42-generic-pae 2.6.35.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jan 21 10:21:19 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
XsessionErrors:
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1985): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (Do:1996): Wnck-CRITICAL **: wnck_set_client_type got called multiple times.
 (nautilus:1994): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. Ubuntu 10.10 is no longer supported so I'm going to close this bug.

[Joseph Crawford (info-josephcrawford)]

If it didn't take you 4 years to acknowledge a bug report things may have been different :)