After two days of testing, the following workaround seems to work in most cases:
1. When starting pidgin, it always hangs, then kill it,
2. issue the command 'killall indicator-messages-service'
3. wait 2-3 minutes 
4. start pidgin

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  pidgin hangs on startup

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