I ran into exactly the same problem. I'm running Pidgin 2.5.2 on Ubuntu Linux 8.10.
Pidgin started, briefly displaying the Buddy List window. after about a second, it vanishes. The prescribed workaround works. I found, though, that simply reducing the number of files in the ~/.purple/icons folder was sufficient - e.g., I had many, many icons to begin with, and cleared all jpegs and gifs, leaving only pngs. that was enough to let me start up Pidgin. in fact, I was able, after applying the workaround, to recreate the issue by introducing a large number (1000) of new jpgs to the icons folder (I did this by writing a quick and dirty perl script to copy a single jpg 1000 times). the resulting error that Pidgin throws when executed from the command line is as follows: ** Gtk:ERROR:/build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.14.4/gtk/gtktreestore.c:531:gtk_tree_store_get_path: assertion failed: (G_NODE (iter->user_data)->parent != NULL) Aborted so there ya go. a real bug with steps to recreate. is this enough to work with? please say yes! :) Matt -- Pidgin crashes at startup https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316129 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
