I'm not sure, if it's the same problem here, but my gaim show me information about crash at startup, but tray icons is available all the time, and gaim is working while showing this message,
** Attachment added: "here is the crash report..." http://librarian.launchpad.net/5515036/_usr_bin_gaim.1000.crash -- Gaim crashes after startup (strcmp) [NO MORE CRASH FILES NEEDED] https://launchpad.net/bugs/67361 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
