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Pidgin stops while starting

Asked by Bartłomiej Wawro

My Pidgin won't start. Whenever I try to launch it, it opens contact list window, sometimes it manages to load some contacts (sometimes it even opens chat window with some message which I can't read anyway, because it stops before the chat window is open completely) and then nothing happens. It's just 'hanging'. I have to open system monitor and remove pidgin to close it.
I use Ubuntu 11.10 (current version).
Any ideas?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Try:

mv ~/.purple ~/.purple_old

Then rerun, is it ok?

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Bartłomiej Wawro (kosimus) said : 		#2

"mv: nie można wykonać stat na `/home/bartek/.purple': Nie ma takiego pliku ani katalogu"

means:

"mv: can not perform stat on `/home/bartek/.purple': No such file nor directory"

Sorry for rough translation.

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Bartłomiej Wawro (kosimus) said : 		#3

Sorry! It worked.

I just did it twice because I thought that noting happened :p.
Thanks for the solution!

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

In Linux, if you get no output, the command worked. You don't get an 'OK' after successful commands, its redundant. You ust renamed the old profile so you got a fresh profile which can help.

you can clean up with:

rm -r ~/.purple_old

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Bartłomiej Wawro (kosimus) said : 		#5

Thanks!