Update: - moving my ~/.purple out of the way cause pidgin to start again - copying the old ~/.purple back reproduced the problem - so I created a fresh ~/.purple and tried to copy all the old parts of it back in, one file/subdirectory at a time, to narrow in on the problem - pidgin kept starting correctly all the way through that process - at the end, I tried again with a copy of the broken ~/.purple moved in all at once - it worked - I presume there's some relevant state outside of ~/.purple required for reproduction which I've now lost?
Happy to send an strace in case that is interesting. -- Peter Eckersley [email protected] Technology Projects Director Tel +1 415 436 9333 x131 Electronic Frontier Foundation Fax +1 415 436 9993 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
