Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: pidgin
We have several computers here, all running fresh (and up-to-date)
installs of Ubuntu Intrepid. The only significant deviation in terms of
installation is that nsswitch has been modified to include the ldap
mechanism for passwd/group.
All of these desktops have been subject to the following behaviour:
At least once a day, connections spontaniously break to the local XMPP
server and any external chat servers (MSN etc). Reconnection fails with
a message about a failure to resolve the server name.
This did not exhibit when the desktops were using Hardy (but also they
were not using LDAP).
Bonjour (MDNS) based accounts are unaffected in pidgin.
DNS lookups from other tools and apps are unaffected. Empathy will
succeed where Pidgin is failing.
Logging out and logging in again has no effect.
Rebooting the computer does have an effect, and connections work again.
Putting the chat server name in /etc/hosts has no effect.
Wiping the .purple configs and starting again doesn't change anything.
The accounts are set to "No Proxy". The Gnome proxy configuration is set to
Direct.
However, when the problem is exhibiting itself, clicking on "Configure Proxy"
in pidgin preferences results in an error message.
There are messages about "pidgin: free(): invalid pointer" when
restarting in this state (see attached)
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
Package: pidgin 1:2.5.2-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686
** Affects: pidgin (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug
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Pidgin spontaneously fails to resolve servers while other apps seem fine
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/325695
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