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FS#19508 - pidgin crash after ICQ module connection

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by supersonic (supersonic) - Tuesday, 18 May 2010, 16:12 GMT
Last edited by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Monday, 31 May 2010, 18:51 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Closed
Assigned To Ionut Biru (wonder)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
Pidgin 2.7.0 crashes after connection to ICQ. Its comming with this version.
When im connected it seems like pidgin check up statuses and crash.
Other modules (XMPP) works fine

Additional info:
* package version(s): 2.7.0-1
* config and/or log files etc: attached
* system: Linux pavani-desktop 2.6.33-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu May 13 12:06:25 CEST 2010 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2140 @ 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Steps to reproduce:
1) open pidgin
2) connect to ICQ
3) PROFIT?
This task depends upon

Closed by  Ionut Biru (wonder)
Monday, 31 May 2010, 18:51 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  pidgin 2.7.1-1
Comment by supersonic (supersonic) - Tuesday, 18 May 2010, 16:14 GMT
standart bugreport tool log file
   Pidgin-bugreport.txt (549.7 KiB)
Comment by Thomas Dziedzic (tomd123) - Tuesday, 18 May 2010, 16:20 GMT
Can you get a backtrace? and also, I have a feeling that this is probably an upstream bug.
Comment by Thomas Dziedzic (tomd123) - Tuesday, 18 May 2010, 16:23 GMT
As I suspected: http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/11863

The following is a duplicate of the above bug: http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/11894
Comment by supersonic (supersonic) - Thursday, 20 May 2010, 18:01 GMT
it seems like some buddy from my contact list - is cause of this crash.
sometimes pidgin starts ok, but after some time its crash up. some times its happend after start pidgin..

bugtrace gdb show this:
$ gdb pidgin
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.1
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
Reading symbols from /usr/bin/pidgin...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/pidgin
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xb6955030 in purple_parse_msgerr () from /usr/lib/purple-2/liboscar.so.0
Comment by supersonic (supersonic) - Thursday, 20 May 2010, 18:03 GMT
i think he is 434230231. he using qip client.
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Thursday, 20 May 2010, 18:03 GMT
@supersonic same issue as upstream 11863.

if you don't want to wait until 2.7.1 is release i suggest to use ABS and add this patch:

http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/6c2368ad4315c5277c41916c2be642f8aa1894e2/with/e3dd36706068f3b8eabd630ff71d270c145cce42/libpurple/protocols/oscar/family_icbm.c
Comment by Thomas Dziedzic (tomd123) - Sunday, 30 May 2010, 17:04 GMT
2.7.1 has been released, please close this when the package get's upgraded

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