Package: pidgin Version: 2.7.3-1+squeeze1 Severity: important Hello, I've been trying to get pidgin to work with google's voice&video chat features over the xmpp protocol.
Everytime I try to establish a video call pidgin segfaults. I'm attaching the backtrace. It indicates the culprit is the farsight2 backend. Searching online I found this is a known bug in pidgin and farsight2: http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/12181 They say it has been fixed for versions of pidgin above 2.7.3. Furthermore, libgstfarsight0.10-0 needs to be upgraded as well. Without these upgrades, pidgin video chat is unusable using xmpp -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages pidgin depends on: ii gconf2 2.28.1-6 GNOME configuration database syste ii libatk1.0-0 1.30.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcairo2 1.8.10-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-4 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.88-2.1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-2.1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.30-1 Core GStreamer libraries and eleme ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libgtkspell0 2.0.16-1 a spell-checking addon for GTK's T ii libice6 2:1.0.6-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpurple0 2.7.3-1+squeeze1 multi-protocol instant messaging l ii libsm6 2:1.1.1-1 X11 Session Management library ii libstartup-notification 0.10-1 library for program launch feedbac ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-4 X11 client-side library ii libxml2 2.7.8.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library ii libxss1 1:1.2.0-2 X11 Screen Saver extension library ii perl 5.10.1-16 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii perl-base [perlapi-5.10 5.10.1-16 minimal Perl system ii pidgin-data 2.7.3-1+squeeze1 multi-protocol instant messaging c Versions of packages pidgin recommends: ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-base 0.10.30-1 GStreamer plugins from the "base" ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-good 0.10.24-1 GStreamer plugins from the "good" Versions of packages pidgin suggests: ii evolution-data-server 2.30.3-2 evolution database backend server ii gnome-panel 2.30.2-2 launcher and docking facility for ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.3-1 SQLite 3 shared library -- no debconf information
$ gdb pidgin GNU gdb (GDB) 7.0.1-debian Copyright (C) 2009 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 "x86_64-linux-gnu". For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>... Reading symbols from /usr/bin/pidgin...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/pidgin...done. (no debugging symbols found)...done. (gdb) set pagination 0 (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/bin/pidgin [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [New Thread 0x7fffbd9c3710 (LWP 3924)] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00007ffff4d7d28c in gst_handle_message_error (bus=<value optimized out>, msg=<value optimized out>, self=<value optimized out>) at /usr/src/debian/work/build-area/pidgin-2.7.3/./libpurple/media/backend-fs2.c:1025 1025 /usr/src/debian/work/build-area/pidgin-2.7.3/./libpurple/media/backend-fs2.c: No such file or directory. in /usr/src/debian/work/build-area/pidgin-2.7.3/./libpurple/media/backend-fs2.c (gdb) bt #0 0x00007ffff4d7d28c in gst_handle_message_error (bus=<value optimized out>, msg=<value optimized out>, self=<value optimized out>) at /usr/src/debian/work/build-area/pidgin-2.7.3/./libpurple/media/backend-fs2.c:1025 #1 gst_bus_cb (bus=<value optimized out>, msg=<value optimized out>, self=<value optimized out>) at /usr/src/debian/work/build-area/pidgin-2.7.3/./libpurple/media/backend-fs2.c:1063 #2 0x00007ffff551f47e in g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #3 0x00007ffff55353f7 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #4 0x00007ffff5536a76 in g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #5 0x00007ffff5536fc3 in g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #6 0x00007ffff76dbba2 in gst_bus_async_signal_func () from /usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0 #7 0x00007ffff76dca54 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0 #8 0x00007ffff50706f2 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #9 0x00007ffff5074568 in ?? () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #10 0x00007ffff5074a75 in g_main_loop_run () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #11 0x00007ffff644c6b7 in IA__gtk_main () at /scratch/build-area/gtk+2.0-2.20.1/gtk/gtkmain.c:1219 #12 0x0000000000485fb4 in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffe3e8) at /usr/src/debian/work/build-area/pidgin-2.7.3/./pidgin/gtkmain.c:978 (gdb) quit
