A plug-in it was

[Costantinos 'Tino' Bourboulas]

Hi Gary

Very close call - it wasn't  "guifications", but the "Evolution Integration" plugin. Deactivated it => runs like a charm!

Thanks a bunch for your help
tino

Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:55:17 -0500
From: Gary Kramlich <grim at reaperworld.com>
Subject: Re: Ubuntu 804: Pidgin freezes for about 4 minutes before
    proceeding
To: Costantinos 'Tino' Bourboulas <cbourbou at yahoo.com>
Cc: support at pidgin.im
Message-ID: <48B43575.8010705 at reaperworld.com>
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Costantinos 'Tino' Bourboulas wrote:
> Dear all
> 
> Using Ubuntu 8.04 with standard Pidgin 2.4.3, one account on Yahoo, one
> on XMPP.
> 
> Pidgin was working well up until now, but since mid last week, when
> double clicking on a buddy (both true for Yahoo/XMPP), the Pidgin buddy
> windows always freezes (turns gray) for around 4 minutes before the
> buddy communication window comes up.
> 
> The chatting itself runs at normal speed. No error message when started
> from terminal.
> 
> Hope this sounds familiar to you....
> 
> Cheers
> Tino

Do you have the guifications plugin loaded?

-- 
Gary Kramlich <grim at reaperworld.com>


      
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