Here is attached the gdb crash backtrace. Surprisingly, under valgrind it did not crash...
More details: $ apt-cache show libc6 Package: libc6 Priority: required Section: base Installed-Size: 10108 Maintainer: Ubuntu Core developers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Original-Maintainer: GNU Libc Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Source: glibc Version: 2.6.1-0ubuntu1 Provides: glibc-2.6-1 Depends: libgcc1 Suggests: locales, glibc-doc Conflicts: libterm-readline-gnu-perl (<< 1.15-2), tzdata (<< 2007e-2) Filename: pool/main/g/glibc/libc6_2.6.1-0ubuntu1_i386.deb Size: 4182062 MD5sum: c248f12b4a75bf618881082f740b023c SHA1: 78a4f7dacaa8f11ff0aa25a162ffa371d9db1710 SHA256: 5b05accee952294549f7c51fd1f87cba8823602fde815752f13b8825bf5d41dd Description: GNU C Library: Shared libraries Contains the standard libraries that are used by nearly all programs on the system. This package includes shared versions of the standard C library and the standard math library, as well as many others. Bugs: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Origin: Ubuntu ** Attachment added: "GDB crash backtrace" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/8721824/gdb-pidgin.txt -- [gutsy] Pidgin 2.1.0 crashes on the freshly updated libc6 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/130852 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs