Pidgin 2.5.5 crashes on logging in to MSN account with large number of contacts

[Ka-Hing Cheung]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:24:28AM +0200, Gilles Gravier wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Since this week, more or less, when I log into MSN Messenger with pidgin
> with my account "Gilles at Gravier.org" pidgin starts connecting, then
> crashes. This happens on Windows and on Solaris. With Pidgin 2.5.5.
> 
> It doesn't happen with other accounts on MSN that have a smaller list of
> contacts.
> 
> I've tried from a clean configuration (i.e. deleted .purple and
> re-entered the account details from MSN, supposing things like a cache
> corruption for the icons but to no avail).
> 
> Suggestions? Ideas?

Please get a backtrace:

http://d.pidgin.im/wiki/GetABackTrace

-khc