This bug does also affects me. However I uninstalled pidgin-skype and installed the newest deb from this website: http://eion.robbmob.com/ (Version 13 Jan '13) and now Pidigin works fine and have good Skype support.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pidgin in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/917686 Title: pidgin crashed with SIGSEGV in _XSend() Status in “pidgin” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I had install pidgin-skype and I try to connect without have package skype (I didn't know that it need it). So pidgin crash. P.S. Package skype have been removed since I run disk-upgrade. And I am not able to reinstall it because dependencies are not satisfied. ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: pidgin 1:2.10.1-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-9.16-generic 3.2.1 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-9-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Jan 17 17:02:23 2012 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20111129.1) ProcCmdline: pidgin SegvAnalysis: Segfault happened at: 0x7f65ba667487 <_XSend+39>: mov (%rdx),%rbp PC (0x7f65ba667487) ok source "(%rdx)" (0x0011008a) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)! destination "%rbp" ok SegvReason: reading unknown VMA Signal: 11 SourcePackage: pidgin StacktraceTop: _XSend () from /usr/lib/x86_64-hostname-gnu/libX11.so.6 _XFlush () from /usr/lib/x86_64-hostname-gnu/libX11.so.6 XUnloadFont () from /usr/lib/x86_64-hostname-gnu/libX11.so.6 XCloseDisplay () from /usr/lib/x86_64-hostname-gnu/libX11.so.6 skype_close () from /usr/lib/purple-2/libskype.so Title: pidgin crashed with SIGSEGV in _XSend() UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/917686/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
