LXer: Ubuntu Karmic fail: Pidgin and the new Empathy won't run in some cases until yo
 

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I haven't loaded up an IM client since I upgraded from Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) to Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic). But I did today, and neither Pidgin nor the new GNOMEish Empathy would run. (Whether this matters or not, I upgraded from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10, as opposed to doing a reinstall.) I started both IM clients in the terminal to see if I could determine what the problem might be.

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