[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1109251] Re: pidgin hangs on startup

2013-07-31 Thread JaSK
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1108056 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1108056 god damn, sorry, wrong thread. didn't see the "duplicate" flag sorry, never reported a bug before :p -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1109251] Re: pidgin hangs on startup

2013-07-31 Thread JaSK
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1108056 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1108056 I have the same issue (crash on startup, sometimes it works but then it will stop after a few hours (maybe when it reconnects an account?) deleted ~/.purple/blist.xml and now it works no idea if coincidenc

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1109251] Re: pidgin hangs on startup

2013-05-27 Thread aso
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1108056 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1108056 Same in me, sometimes Pidgin start, sometimes not. (15:36:51) account: Connecting to account (my XMPP)/. (15:36:51) connection: Connecting. gc = 0x7f66324d6300 (15:36:51) gg: // gg_resolver_run() count = 4

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1109251] Re: pidgin hangs on startup

2013-05-03 Thread Fedik
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1108056 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1108056 same here ... BUT it alway (here) works if run from terminal: ~$ pidgin -d but stuck on startup if: ~$ pidgin -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1109251] Re: pidgin hangs on startup

2013-04-20 Thread Robert Hooker
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1108056 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1108056 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1108056 fetching URLs freezes pidgin -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pidgin in U

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1109251] Re: pidgin hangs on startup

2013-04-10 Thread garnus
Hi, im on 12.04 and i have the same problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pidgin in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1109251 Title: pidgin hangs on startup Status in “pidgin” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1109251] Re: pidgin hangs on startup

2013-03-08 Thread Arthur H
@Roy I think the debug flag working around the deadlock is coincidental, I had several instances where everything worked and then stopped (multiple times, and worked for several hours on each). You may want to be aware of this. In any event, I can't provide any more info on this bug as I've switc

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1109251] Re: pidgin hangs on startup

2013-03-08 Thread Roy Kishun
I have the same symptom where pidgin launches and the buddy list just hangs The workaround for me is to run it in debug mode "pidgin -d" and it works fine. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pidgin in Ubuntu. https://bug

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1109251] Re: pidgin hangs on startup

2013-03-03 Thread Pablo Castellazzi
@zarquon42 you are right, at first it seemed to work, but i think the problem is much more complicated than we originaly though. In my case the hang up is not related to a network issue. If i run pidgin -n it starts ok, but when i press Ctrl-C on the terminal sometimes it hang up. strace output

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1109251] Re: pidgin hangs on startup

2013-03-03 Thread zarquon42
@pablo, this has no effect in my case in 3 out of 4 cases pidgin still hangs either at dnssrv: found 2 SRV entries or util: requesting to fetch a URL -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pidgin in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchp

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1109251] Re: pidgin hangs on startup

2013-03-02 Thread Pablo Castellazzi
I am using 13.04 with all upgrades, to workaround this issue i removed (dpkg --purge) libproxy1-plugin-gsettings and libproxy1-plugin- networkmanager. Before the removal i always got a defunct gsettings process and a hanged pidgin. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member o

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1109251] Re: pidgin hangs on startup

2013-02-28 Thread Arthur Heffern
I'm not sure. I'm running into a few problems. I JUST ran an update (doing so every few hours) and got a new pidgin and supporting libraries. Empathy seemed to let me view the AIM account credentials in the account manager now. Pidgin still hangs randomly. Pidgin seems to be freezing at a few

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1109251] Re: pidgin hangs on startup

2013-02-28 Thread bwat47
Do you think the empathy issue I linked earlier could be related? The symtoms sound similar, at first the empathy accounts work fine, and then after a while they totally refuse to work, and trying to set one up in UOA its just totally blank under "enter account details". Maybe they could be hitting

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1109251] Re: pidgin hangs on startup

2013-02-28 Thread Arthur Heffern
Scratch that, it's broken again. I've been working all day without issue, multiple reboots, closes and relaunches, no hiccups, and as I swtiched back my pidgin window from writing my last post, it was gray. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1109251] Re: pidgin hangs on startup

2013-02-28 Thread Arthur Heffern
@bwat47, looks like it is the issue linked by zarquon42, although things are now working after latest round of apt-get updates so they might have fixed the gnome based gsettings bug that was causing the issue with pidgin. All my accounts seem to be good and well at the moment, with the exception o

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1109251] Re: pidgin hangs on startup

2013-02-28 Thread bwat47
I recently installed xubuntu raring and pidgin works totally fine there, so definitely something to do with gnome/unity. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pidgin in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1109251 Title: p

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1109251] Re: pidgin hangs on startup

2013-02-28 Thread Arthur Heffern
Confirmed. This is also the root cause of my issue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pidgin in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1109251 Title: pidgin hangs on startup Status in “pidgin” package in Ubuntu: Conf

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1109251] Re: pidgin hangs on startup

2013-02-28 Thread Simon K
I can confirm, that in !my! case https://bugs.launchpad.net/pidgin/+bug/1108056 would have been the right bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pidgin in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1109251 Title: pidgin hang

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1109251] Re: pidgin hangs on startup

2013-02-28 Thread zarquon42
This seems to be a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/pidgin/+bug/1108056, and pidgin is waiting for gsettings, which is non-responsive (also see https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/15493) ** Bug watch added: Pidgin Trac #15493 http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/15493 -- You received this

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1109251] Re: pidgin hangs on startup

2013-02-27 Thread Arthur Heffern
One more tidbit -- Pidgin hangs with the 3 above accounts configured after sleep and resume. I have to kill pidgin and restart for it to re-connect. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pidgin in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpa

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1109251] Re: pidgin hangs on startup

2013-02-27 Thread zarquon42
OK - when I disable network connections, pidgin starts without hanging, but hangs, as soon as I connect to the internet and set pidgin to online too (sometimes, DE becomes irresponsible and only ctrl+alt+f1 and killall -9 pidgin makes can solve it) -- You received this bug notification because yo

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1109251] Re: pidgin hangs on startup

2013-02-27 Thread zarquon42
Hi, i disabled all xmpp accounts and only enabled irc - it hangs less often, but still hangs. Always at: ... (20:35:17) Session Management: Using pidgin as command (20:35:17) pidgin-libnotify: Updating status set from pidgin to 'offline' (20:35:17) util: requesting to fetch a URL -- You received

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1109251] Re: pidgin hangs on startup

2013-02-27 Thread Arthur Heffern
I seem to have no hang issues if I don't add an XMPP account. After adding only AIM, Yahoo and MSN accounts, I can use pidgin, close pidgin and relaunch pidgin without issue. After adding an XMPP account, I can use the account until I close and relaunch pidgin, at which point, I get the crash. Ev

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1109251] Re: pidgin hangs on startup

2013-02-27 Thread bwat47
@zarquon, agreed, and even worse empathy is constantly unreliable when it comes to connecting to accounts, it loves to randomly disconnect or refuse to connect at all, and its gotten even more unreliably since the introduction of UOA's buggy single-sign-on. And in raring empathy/UOA is also broken

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1109251] Re: pidgin hangs on startup

2013-02-26 Thread zarquon42
Sometimes I have to try the 'indicator-killing' several times until pidgin is working. The strange thing, however, is the erratic behaviour. I consider this bug relatively critical, as there is no true alternative to pidgin - empathy is just a pile of garbage: huge buddy icons make it unpossibl

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1109251] Re: pidgin hangs on startup

2013-02-26 Thread Arthur Heffern
A bit of info from my testing: Updating to 2.10.7 does not resolve the issue (current version in raring repo, as of today's date). Killing indicator-messages-service as suggested above also does not resolve the issue for me. 'nohup'ping and tossing in the background as suggested above does not h

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1109251] Re: pidgin hangs on startup

2013-02-24 Thread zarquon42
After two days of testing, the following workaround seems to work in most cases: 1. When starting pidgin, it always hangs, then kill it, 2. issue the command 'killall indicator-messages-service' 3. wait 2-3 minutes 4. start pidgin -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1109251] Re: pidgin hangs on startup

2013-02-23 Thread zarquon42
Fiddling about brought some insight. When pidgin hangs, kill it and restart indicator-messages-service with the command 'killall indicator- messages-service'. Then, eventually, pidgin works ... for some time. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, whic

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1109251] Re: pidgin hangs on startup

2013-02-22 Thread zarquon42
Nope, it hangs again - after 2hours it is back to hang at startup -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pidgin in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1109251 Title: pidgin hangs on startup Status in “pidgin” package in U

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1109251] Re: pidgin hangs on startup

2013-02-22 Thread zarquon42
do you have pidgin-openpgp installed? Removing this package seemed to have solved this problem for me (at least it is working for the last 15 minutes, including two restarts) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pidgin in Ubunt

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1109251] Re: pidgin hangs on startup

2013-02-17 Thread bwat47
I can reproduce this happening this way: When I first boot ubuntu 13.04 and open pidgin its fine. If I log out, log back in, and open pidgin it always hangs immediately. Also tried clearing my pidgin config and such, no help. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desk

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1109251] Re: pidgin hangs on startup

2013-02-13 Thread zarquon42
It does not work here: still unresponsive -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pidgin in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1109251 Title: pidgin hangs on startup Status in “pidgin” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1109251] Re: pidgin hangs on startup

2013-02-13 Thread Merelin
The same here. But I seem to have found a workaround. Open a terminal window and run "nohup pidgin &". Pidgin does not hang on startup and remains working after the terminal window is closed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed t

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1109251] Re: pidgin hangs on startup

2013-02-12 Thread zarquon42
Same here, I purged, reinstalled and deleted my pidgin user profile - but in 9 out of 10 times pidgin remains unresponsive (I only have one active jabber account). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pidgin in Ubuntu. https://

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1109251] Re: pidgin hangs on startup

2013-02-11 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: pidgin (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pidgin in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/110925

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1109251] Re: pidgin hangs on startup

2013-02-02 Thread melchiaros
** Tags added: regression-release -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pidgin in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1109251 Title: pidgin hangs on startup Status in “pidgin” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: