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Let me guess, you updated Pidgin because you couldn't connect to Yahoo Messenger anymore and now it won't work at all. If you try to start the program from a console you get the following message pidgin: symbol lookup error: pidgin: undefined symbol: gst_registry_fork_set_enabled
That's what happened to me, the fix was simple, update gstreamer and gstreamer plugins to the latest version. Running "yum update gstreamer*" got me new versions of gstreamer, gstreamer-tools, gstreamer-plugins-base and gstreamer-plugins-good.
I'm running Centos 5 but I suspect others including Redhat EL5 users are running into the same problem, I hope this helps.
I found this by Googling…seems an easier fix
Click on the “Advanced” tab and paste the following line in the “Pager server” field…
cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com
Works like a charm
thanks very much for the recipe to fix this. I had to download all 4 rpms separately and install them but it worked!
daan> sudo rpm -U gstreamer-tools-0.10.20-3.el5.i386.rpm
daan> sudo rpm -U gstreamer-0.10.20-3.el5.i386.rpm
daan> sudo rpm -U gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.20-3.el5.i386.rpm
daan> sudo rpm -U gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.9-1.el5_3.1.i386.rpm
Thanks a lot, running centos on my ntb too, but still 5.2 (lots added and compiled sw to kernel so lazy tu update to 5.3) and this was quick fix to my pidgin problem.
Thanks a lot man! :.)
Thank you very much. It did the trick for me.