I have the same issue, after about 12h pidgin ran out of file handles. ~$ lsof | grep pidgin | wc -l 1339
Examples of open handles are: pidgin 7018 altery 761r REG 8,3 55008 5685274 /usr/share/sounds/purple/receive.wav pidgin 7018 altery 731r FIFO 0,6 642209 pipe I'm running pidgin 2.5.2 on Intrepid x86. -- Pidgin has resource leak https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/323197 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs