On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 12:45:51PM +0100, Markus Hennecke wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 02:02:23PM +0100, Simon Kuhnle wrote: >>> On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 10:10:59PM +0100, Markus Hennecke wrote: >>>> Description: Console Jabber client. >>>> Homepage: http://www.lilotux.net/~mikael/mcabber/ >>>> >>>> Comments and tests appreciated. Working on i386 and amd64. I had a report >>>> about segfaults on a snapshot from 6th december (i386), but could not >>>> reproduce that. 4.2-stable definetly won't work. >>> >>> Works for me on i386 now. Chatted and tested PPG encryption, >>> both worked without problems. >>> >>> On amd64 it coredumps when there's a ~/.mcabberrc file. >>> >>> Without it, it starts up fine, but gives me the following message: >>> [14:00:27]*Error: cannot convert string to locale. >>> >>> Here's the backtrace when started with .mcabberrc file: >> can you move the mcabber file to ~/.mcabber/mcabberrc and try again? >> i can use mcabber fine here on amd64 with the file in that location. > > Everyone having mcabber segfault should check that their libiconv is up to > date: > > $ echo "hello" | iconv -f UTF-8 -t 646 > hello > $ pkg_info | grep iconv > libiconv-1.9.2p5 character set conversion library > > Versions below patchlevel 1.9.2p5 won't work, see the comment in the cvs > commit. > > However, the program should not segfault on this condition.
You're right. I updated libiconv and now it runs fine! So: mcabber works for me on i386 and amd64! Thanks for your efforts Markus! I really like mcabber. -- simon
