Pidgin is hanging on startup (spinning with 100% cpu usage), just as it displays the "Accounts" wizard window (which is not responsive).

Attaching with gdb shows it is looping in :

(gdb) bt
#0  0x00e3b03a in strcmp () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1  0x004a20a4 in g_str_equal () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#2  0x00c1d6b1 in g_dir_open () from /usr/lib/pidgin/nautilus.so
#3  0x0047d90c in ?? () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#4  0x0047d1e8 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#5  0x004807f8 in ?? () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#6  0x00480caf in g_main_loop_run () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#7  0x04764969 in gtk_main () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#8  0x080c6f61 in main ()