Found the root cause: I was sharing the .purple configuration directory
between two Ubuntu installations (symlink between homes), Feisty and
Gutsy. When I recreated the Pidgin configuration from scratch in Gutsy,
the crashes stopped reproducing.
In more detail, I found that the accounts.xml file f
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: file-roller
File roller version 2.19.90-0ubuntu1 in Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10 up-to-date.
While in Ubuntu Feisty the File roller utility you would get to choose
what application you will use to open certain files and remember that
choice, in Ubuntu Gutsy the fil
No, running Pidgin under valgrind does not crash. I use this as a
workaround to be able to use Pidgin (albeit quite slow) :).
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[gutsy] Pidgin 2.1.0 crashes on the freshly updated libc6
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/130852
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Binary package hint: pidgin
Immediately after updating libc6 today (and restarting the system),
Pidgin would keep crashing upon starting it up (automatic accounts
logging in, automatic joining to a few XMPPS chat rooms). Pidgin was
working just fine previ
