I tried the sru1 PPA, but it didn't work for me. I ended up with 2 pidgin processes (one of which was <defunct>), and no UI whatsoever. When I kill -HUP the living pidgin process, I'd get a quick flash of the buddy list window, and then everything would close down. pigden -d logs showed the "nobody needs me" dns message.
I tried ppa:pidgin-developers/ppa, which shows releases after the fix was committed, but I see the same UI freeze and <defunct> gsettings process as others: $ apt-cache policy pidgin pidgin: Installed: 1:2.10.7-2ubuntu0+pidgin1.13.04 Candidate: 1:2.10.7-2ubuntu0+pidgin1.13.04 Version table: *** 1:2.10.7-2ubuntu0+pidgin1.13.04 0 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/pidgin-developers/ppa/ubuntu/ raring/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:2.10.7-0ubuntu4.1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main amd64 Packages If I run the ppa:pidgin-developers/ppa version of pidgin in an strace, it works fine, so that's a workaround for me. $ strace pidgin -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to glib2.0 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1108056 Title: fetching URLs freezes pidgin To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/pidgin/+bug/1108056/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs