this is unrelated to the adding of an account, so it seems. when restarting pidgin, the account I added is still there. the problem occurs when I log in though.
see the attached log, now with pidgin-dbg installed. ** Attachment added: "pidgin.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/11672974/pidgin.log -- [hardy] pidgin crashed with signal 5 in purple_url_encode() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187604 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
