Pidgin buddy list window never shows up on screen after opening, closing many times

Bug #897540 reported by alan
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #879950: pidgin not showing up. Edit Remove
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pidgin (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

Open Pidgin, it shows up on the crappy mac knockoff Unity side bar but the buddy list window never opens. Click on Pidgin icon in crappy side bar and still never opens and never shows Pidgin menu in top bar.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: pidgin 1:2.10.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.22-generic-pae 3.0.6
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Nov 28 22:12:52 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110426)
SourcePackage: pidgin
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (45 days ago)
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1676): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_new_string: assertion `string != NULL' failed
 (update-manager:2753): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to add a widget with type aptdaemon+gtk3widgets+AptProgressDialog to a GtkWindow, but as a GtkBin subclass a GtkWindow can only contain one widget at a time; it already contains a widget of type GtkVBox
 (update-manager:2753): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to add a widget with type aptdaemon+gtk3widgets+AptProgressDialog to a GtkWindow, but as a GtkBin subclass a GtkWindow can only contain one widget at a time; it already contains a widget of type GtkVBox

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alan (alan-hamlett) wrote :
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Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 879960, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in pidgin (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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