I am expreiencing the exact same behavior. After an automatic update, I had to reboot and I received this error from Pidgin on startup.
-- pidgin crashed with SIGSEGV https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/122454 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs