What worked for me was starting pidgin with no-login (pidgin -n), adding another account (MSN/ICQ/etc), then re-enabling facebook plugin.
Maybe fbook plugin doesn't do some necessary first run inits? I was only getting the error message when I built pidgin fresh, then built fbook plugin, and ran for first time with it enabled. -- Pidgin hangs when connected to facebook after update to maverick https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/644332 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