Thanks for your bug report. If you want, i have a debug enabled package for Dapper http://www.cerkinfo.be/~kujo/xchat-gnome_0.11-0ubuntu5_i386.deb I suppose it should work with Edgy too.
** Changed in: xchat-gnome (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info -- xchat-gnome crashes on start up https://launchpad.net/bugs/51305 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs