pidgin hangs on first start

Bug #880008 reported by Andy Ghiuta
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This bug affects 8 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
pidgin (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

After a fresh log in, Pidgin (Installed: 1:2.10.0-0ubuntu2) is not showing up at the first start, it just hangs, without displaying the contacts list. The same is happening if it is run (first time only) from the command line.
After quitting and running again, everything works well.
Release: 11.10 (upgraded from 11.04)
Expected: Pidgin starts, showing the contacts list
Result: Pidgin appears as running and active in Unity Launcher, but doesn't show up, not even after going to another program and back.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: pidgin 1:2.10.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 22 19:57:57 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-13 (8 days ago)

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Andy Ghiuta (andyghiuta) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in pidgin (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Bryan (wbryanharris) wrote :

I love Ubuntu in general, but this is one of the issues I have with the O/S. This problem is almost a year old. Two O/S versions later and I'm still having the problem in 12.04.01 and there is no sign of the issue ever being addressed or fixed.

Sure, it is not a huge problem. Closing and restarting fixes the problem temporarily. But add up several of these little problems and it's very aggravating.

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