This just happened to me, but my pigdin instance was running for much longer (overnight). I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 64-bit and pidgin 2.4.1.
And the program just exits; it doesn't crash (which would be nice for the backtrace): ... [New Thread 0x415a9950 (LWP 29940)] [Thread 0x415a9950 (LWP 29940) exited] [Thread 0x42844950 (LWP 29298) exited] pidgin: Fatal IO error 10 (No child processes) on X server :0.0. Program exited with code 01. (gdb) bt No stack. -- pidgin: Fatal IO error 10 (No child processes) on X server :0.0. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/183844 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