Pidgin with sipe crash on start [closed]

Question

I can't use Pidgin as Lync client after upgrading to ubuntu 12.10. It fall with an Segmentation fault error on startup.

sergey@ws153:~$ pidgin
`menu_proxy_module_load': pidgin: undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load
`menu_proxy_module_load': pidgin: undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load
`menu_proxy_module_load': pidgin: undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load
`menu_proxy_module_load': pidgin: undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load
`menu_proxy_module_load': pidgin: undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load
`menu_proxy_module_load': pidgin: undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load
`menu_proxy_module_load': pidgin: undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load
`menu_proxy_module_load': pidgin: undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load
`menu_proxy_module_load': pidgin: undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load
`menu_proxy_module_load': pidgin: undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load
`menu_proxy_module_load': pidgin: undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load
`menu_proxy_module_load': pidgin: undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load
`menu_proxy_module_load': pidgin: undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load
`menu_proxy_module_load': pidgin: undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load
`menu_proxy_module_load': pidgin: undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

syslog:

Nov  5 10:06:55 ws153 kernel: [12453.225535] pidgin[21734]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f0891e1dad4 sp 00007fff7e9ee150 error 4 in libc-2.15.so[7f0891de1000+1b5000]

I already try to remove ~/.purple folder and add accounts from scratch. But error appear again after adding Office Communicator account.

Answer 1

Problem is with appmenu-gtk.

Try installing the package, Open a terminal and type:

sudo apt-get install appmenu-gtk

Hope this helps.