Description of problem: After running yum update this morning and rebooting (twice), pidgin will start but the main window never displays. If I kill the program (or SIGINT from the command line) it flashes the window and exits. The icon never appears in the menu-bar either. I removed mugshot, renamed .purple and none of those things helped. When I renamed .purple I did get the dialog asking to set up a new account. Pressing Cancel did the same thing: no main window and only a flash of it when I pressed CTRL+c. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pidgin.i386 0:2.5.5-1.fc10 How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum -y update 2. pidgin 3. Actual results: No main window nor icon. Expected results: Main window / Icon Additional info: Running as root: No window, SIGINT causes segfault: [root@xxxx bill]# pidgin (pidgin:4790): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_caps_copy: assertion `GST_IS_CAPS (caps)' failed (pidgin:4790): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_caps_do_simplify: assertion `caps != NULL' failed (pidgin:4790): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_caps_unref: assertion `caps != NULL' failed ^C*** glibc detected *** pidgin: free(): invalid pointer: 0x09a2ec10 *** ======= Backtrace: ========= [snip]
Ugh, I was afraid of this. Waiting seems to have fixed it. Perhaps there were strange network issues on my end.