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) certificate: CertificateVerifier singleuse registered (21:40:40) certificate: CertificatePool x509, ca requested but not found. (21:40:40) certificate: CertificateScheme x509 requested but not found. (21:40:40) certificate/x509/ca: Lazy init failed because an X.509 Scheme is not yet registered. Maybe it will be better later. (21:40:40) certificate/x509/ca: Init failed, probably because a dependency is not yet registered. It has been deferred to later. (21:40:40) certificate: CertificatePool ca registered (21:40:40) certificate: CertificatePool x509, tls_peers requested but not found. (21:40:40) certificate: CertificatePool tls_peers registered (21:40:40) certificate: CertificateVerifier x509, tls_cached requested but not found. (21:40:40) certificate: CertificateVerifier tls_cached registered (21:40:40) prefs: /purple/logging/format changed, scheduling save. (21:40:40) prefs: /purple/logging/format changed, scheduling save. (21:40:40) prefs: /purple/proxy/type changed, scheduling save. (21:40:40) prefs: /purple/proxy/host changed, scheduling save. (21:40:40) prefs: /purple/proxy/port changed, scheduling save. (21:40:40) prefs: /purple/proxy/username changed, scheduling save. (21:40:40) prefs: /purple/proxy/password changed, scheduling save. (21:40:41) certificate: CertificateScheme x509 requested but not found. (21:40:41) certificate: CertificateScheme x509 registered (21:40:41) util: Reading file smileys.xml from directory /home/flyers/.purple (21:40:41) util: File /home/flyers/.purple/smileys.xml does not exist (this is not necessarily an error) (21:40:41) stun: using server (21:40:41) sound: Initializing sound output drivers. (21:40:41) prefs: /pidgin/conversations/placement changed, scheduling save. (21:40:41) gtkblist: added visibility manager: 1 (21:40:41) docklet: created (21:40:41) util: Reading file blist.xml from directory /home/flyers/.purple (21:40:41) plugins: Loading saved plugin /usr/local/lib/purple-2/ssl-gnutls.so (21:40:41) plugins: Loading saved plugin /usr/local/lib/pidgin/timestamp_format.so (21:40:41) plugins: Loading saved plugin /usr/local/lib/purple-2/ssl.so (21:40:41) pounce: Error reading pounces: L'ouverture du fichier « /home/flyers/.purple/pounces.xml » a échoué : Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type (21:40:41) ui_main: Failed to load the default window icon (scalablepx version)! (21:40:41) Session Management: ICE initialized. (21:40:41) Session Management: Connecting with no previous ID (21:40:41) Session Management: Handling new ICE connection... (21:40:41) done. (21:40:41) Session Management: Connected to manager (GnomeSM) with client ID 117f000101000124276204100000056090024 (21:40:41) Session Management: Using pidgin as command (21:40:41) gtkspell: Failed to setup GtkSpell: aspell: No word lists can be found for the language "fr_FR". (21:40:41) dbus: Need to register an object with the dbus subsystem. (If you are not a developer, please ignore this message.) (21:40:41) dbus: The signal "gtkblist-hiding" caused some dbus error. (If you are not a developer, please ignore this message.) (21:40:41) account: Connecting to account [email protected] (21:40:41) connection: Connecting. gc = 0x83a8270 (21:40:41) msn: new httpconn (0x82dd8b8) (21:40:41) GLib: g_strchomp: assertion `string != NULL' failed Hope it help. ** Attachment added: "backtrace.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26947108/backtrace.txt -- cannot restart pidgin https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/145231 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
