Found the root cause: I was sharing the .purple configuration directory
between two Ubuntu installations (symlink between homes), Feisty and
Gutsy. When I recreated the Pidgin configuration from scratch in Gutsy,
the crashes stopped reproducing.
In more detail, I found that the accounts.xml file
not a glib bug
** Changed in: glib2.0 (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete = Invalid
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[gutsy] Pidgin 2.1.0 crashes on the freshly updated libc6
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thank you for the update, this use is not supported, you should have the
configuration corresponding to the version of ubuntu you are using,
closing the bug
** Changed in: pidgin (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete = Invalid
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[gutsy] Pidgin 2.1.0 crashes on the freshly updated libc6
No, running Pidgin under valgrind does not crash. I use this as a
workaround to be able to use Pidgin (albeit quite slow) :).
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[gutsy] Pidgin 2.1.0 crashes on the freshly updated libc6
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reassigning to glib2.0, g_free is called before. please investigate if
that call is valid. we had a glib2.0 update these days as well.
** Changed in: glib2.0 (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: glibc = glib2.0
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[gutsy] Pidgin 2.1.0 crashes on the freshly updated libc6
Thanks for your bug report. Could you try to get a valgrind log for the
crash (you can follow the instructions on
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Valgrind)?
** Changed in: glib2.0 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Medium
Assignee: (unassigned) = Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
Status: New = Incomplete
Once again, after the latest round of updates, Pidgin crashes again,
backtrace appears to indicate an issue in libc6's free() ?
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1224808240 (LWP 6439)]
0xb75ac7cc in free () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
** Attachment
Right name for libc6 is glibc
** Changed in: glibc (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: libc = glibc
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[gutsy] Pidgin 2.1.0 crashes on the freshly updated libc6
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My problem has been fixed with the latest updates. I have not seen any
libc6 update, but something somehow fixed my problem.
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I have the same. here is my bracktrace file
** Attachment added: pidgin backtrace
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/8735865/gdb-pidgin.txt
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[gutsy] Pidgin 2.1.0 crashes on the freshly updated libc6
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Thanks for your bug report. Please try to obtain a backtrace
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and attach the file to the
bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.
** Changed in: pidgin (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Medium
Status: New =
Here is attached the gdb crash backtrace. Surprisingly, under valgrind
it did not crash...
More details:
$ apt-cache show libc6
Package: libc6
Priority: required
Section: base
Installed-Size: 10108
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core developers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Original-Maintainer: GNU Libc Maintainers
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