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Yesterday, when I was trying answer a question on tor I installed it on my machine and at that point, it displayed a message saying a pidgin-XXX is not needed any more and hence run sudo apt-get autoclean. I mentioned it as XXX because I don't remember what that package is. I have shutdown my PC and restarted in the evening, Pidgin started to hang. Not sure of the problem, I tried installing all the pidgin plugins with sudo apt-get install pidgin*. This installed whole bunch of plugins. Even then it is in the same state. Can anyone let me know what I have uninstalled so I can reinstall or what need to be done to fix this issue.

I would like to update here saying that the pidgin gets hanged only when I login into my yahoo account. When I login into skype, it works fine for me. I just realized the same.

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  • Try to run 'pidgin' from terminal and provide us the output.
    – devav2
    Sep 25, 2013 at 5:19
  • I tried running pidgin from terminal using the command pidgin &> /dev/null & and it displayed the below message "Exiting because another libpurple client is already running." as it is running. When quit and run this command, it started properly as I enabled only Skype. When tried to enable yahoo, it got hung and I had to Force Quit the application
    – migrator
    Sep 25, 2013 at 9:27

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I am not sure what went wrong but I have cleaned the whole pidgin installation;

  • uninstalled pidgin
  • renamed all pidgin folders
  • reinstalled everything
  • added again yahoo account

This worked fine for me. I guess it is not the solution in Linux or Ubuntu. I hate to adopt a windows based solution but I was helpless.

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Found this tip on another thread elsewhere. I am running Pidgin from the terminal in debug mode and have not had the 'hanging' problem so far. I have only been doing this for a few days... I start pidgin in the terminal using

pidgin -d
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    okay, now anyhow i do not have this problem but now i remember to use this in case i encounter this problem again. Thanks for the tip.
    – migrator
    Dec 28, 2013 at 15:03

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