Pidgin crashing on adding buddy

[Daniel Atallah]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 01:19, Zacknafain Do'Urden
<Wildnzack at inexistentia.net> wrote:
> I use Pidgin 2.6.1
> (libpurple 2.6.1)
> on Ubuntu 8.04
>
> Every time I attempt to add a buddy on to any of my accounts
> (yahoo, msn, google talk, icq) pidgin crashes, no error messages just
> simply ceases to function.
> I have tried restarting, removing and reinstalling, to no effect
> I have also tried several different ways of adding buddies on - by
> having them add me and then using the confirmation option as well as by
> adding new or adding from the list, all with the same result.

Try disabling the "Evolution Integration" plugin.

-D