Seems i've the same problem.
After editing my configuration to force pidgin to use my privoxy socks
server (localhost:9050), i was unable to launch it again.
Attached the Backtrace.
For information i've a silc account, an msn account and 3 ircs account
configured with one using tlsv1.
There's the pidgins output :
fly...@laptop:~$ pidgin -v
Pidgin 2.5.1
fly...@laptop:~$ pidgin -d
(21:40:40) prefs: Reading /home/flyers/.purple/prefs.xml
(21:40:40) prefs: Finished reading /home/flyers/.purple/prefs.xml
(21:40:40) dbus: okkk
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/pidgin/notify.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/pidgin/gestures.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/pidgin/extplacement.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/pidgin/history.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/pidgin/timestamp.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/pidgin/markerline.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/pidgin/ticker.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/pidgin/xmppconsole.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/pidgin/sendbutton.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/pidgin/musicmessaging.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/pidgin/iconaway.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/pidgin/pidginrc.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/pidgin/relnot.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/pidgin/gtkbuddynote.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/pidgin/convcolors.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/pidgin/timestamp_format.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/pidgin/spellchk.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/purple-2/statenotify.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/purple-2/offlinemsg.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/purple-2/joinpart.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/purple-2/buddynote.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/purple-2/libsimple.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/purple-2/psychic.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/purple-2/libqq.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/purple-2/libzephyr.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/purple-2/libbonjour.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/purple-2/log_reader.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/purple-2/libicq.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/purple-2/libjabber.so
(21:40:40) plugins: /usr/local/lib/purple-2/libjabber.so is not usable because
the 'purple_init_plugin' symbol could not be found. Does the plugin call the
PURPLE_INIT_PLUGIN() macro?
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/purple-2/libsametime.so
(21:40:40) plugins: /usr/local/lib/purple-2/libsametime.so has a prefs_info,
but is a prpl. This is no longer supported.
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/purple-2/libirc.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/purple-2/libxmpp.so
(21:40:40) util: Reading file xmpp-caps.xml from directory /home/flyers/.purple
(21:40:40) util: File /home/flyers/.purple/xmpp-caps.xml does not exist (this
is not necessarily an error)
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/purple-2/ssl.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/purple-2/ssl-gnutls.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/purple-2/libgg.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/purple-2/libyahoo.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/purple-2/libmyspace.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/purple-2/newline.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/purple-2/libaim.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/purple-2/libnovell.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/purple-2/idle.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/purple-2/libsilcpurple.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/purple-2/libmsn.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/purple-2/autoaccept.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/purple-2/ssl-nss.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/purple-2/dbus-example.so
(21:40:40) plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/purple-2/liboscar.so
(21:40:40) plugins: /usr/local/lib/purple-2/liboscar.so is not usable because
the 'purple_init_plugin' symbol could not be found. Does the plugin call the
PURPLE_INIT_PLUGIN() macro?
(21:40:40) prefs: /purple/status/scores/offline changed, scheduling save.
(21:40:40) prefs: /purple/status/scores/available changed, scheduling save.
(21:40:40) prefs: /purple/status/scores/invisible changed, scheduling save.
(21:40:40) prefs: /purple/status/scores/away changed, scheduling save.
(21:40:40) prefs: /purple/status/scores/extended_away changed, scheduling save.
(21:40:40) prefs: /purple/status/scores/idle changed, scheduling save.
(21:40:40) prefs: /purple/status/scores/offline_msg changed, scheduling save.
(21:40:40) util: Reading file accounts.xml from directory /home/flyers/.purple
(21:40:40) util: Reading file status.xml from directory /home/flyers/.purple
(21:40:40) certificate: CertificateVerifier x509, singleuse requested but not
found.
(21:40:40)
