According to upstream pidgin developers, this issue has been fixed in pidgin 1.5.6 which is already in karmic. I installed 1.5.6 and was not able to reproduce the problem anymore. According to this, I set the status to fix released.
** Changed in: pidgin (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- pidgin crashed changing icon with SIGSEGV in memcpy() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/383986 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs