I worked it arounb by installing Vivid version of pidgin-skype and pidgin-skype-common.
I found the two .deb here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/vivid/amd64/pidgin-skype/20140930+svn665+dfsg-1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/vivid/amd64/pidgin-skype-common/20140930+svn665+dfsg-1 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1389757 Title: pidgin crashes on startup: Attempt to unlock mutex that was not locked To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/pidgin/+bug/1389757/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
