Comment 5 for bug 75543

Your are the only one who opened a bug about that and copy to gaim works fine on my box.

The crash log has a:

"X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 154
  Major opcode: 143
  Minor opcode: 3
  Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device"

It looks like some xorg device is not correctly configured. Could you get a backtrace with libgtk2.0-0-dbg installed? If you want to try if gaim 2.0beta5 fixes that problem you can install the package from http://people.ubuntu.com/~seb128/gaim-edgy