i removed microblog-purple (http://code.google.com/p/microblog-purple/) plugin and disabled account and got a new crash
(gdb) r Starting program: /usr/bin/pidgin -n -m -c /tmp/p/ [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 0x7feeb77667d0 (LWP 14047)] warning: Lowest section in /usr/lib/libicudata.so.38 is .hash at 0000000000000158 [New Thread 0x7feea16f9950 (LWP 14064)] [New Thread 0x7fee96c33950 (LWP 14084)] [Thread 0x7fee96c33950 (LWP 14084) exited] [New Thread 0x7fee96c33950 (LWP 14283)] [New Thread 0x7fee8e6f2950 (LWP 14284)] [Thread 0x7fee96c33950 (LWP 14283) exited] [Thread 0x7fee8e6f2950 (LWP 14284) exited] [New Thread 0x7fee8e6f2950 (LWP 14375)] [New Thread 0x7fee96c33950 (LWP 14376)] [Thread 0x7fee8e6f2950 (LWP 14375) exited] [Thread 0x7fee96c33950 (LWP 14376) exited] [New Thread 0x7fee96c33950 (LWP 14395)] [New Thread 0x7fee8e6f2950 (LWP 14396)] [Thread 0x7fee8e6f2950 (LWP 14396) exited] [New Thread 0x7fee8e6f2950 (LWP 14410)] [New Thread 0x7fee91a23950 (LWP 14411)] [Thread 0x7fee8e6f2950 (LWP 14410) exited] [Thread 0x7fee91a23950 (LWP 14411) exited] [New Thread 0x7fee91a23950 (LWP 14434)] [New Thread 0x7fee8e6f2950 (LWP 14435)] [Thread 0x7fee91a23950 (LWP 14434) exited] [Thread 0x7fee8e6f2950 (LWP 14435) exited] [New Thread 0x7fee8e6f2950 (LWP 14452)] [New Thread 0x7fee91a23950 (LWP 14453)] [Thread 0x7fee8e6f2950 (LWP 14452) exited] [Thread 0x7fee91a23950 (LWP 14453) exited] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 0x7feeb77667d0 (LWP 14047)] 0x00007feeb4072639 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6 -- adding an avatar makes pidgin crash https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/371898 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