xchat-gnome 0.17 crashes on startup

[Michael Kuhn]

Binary package hint: xchat-gnome

xchat-gnome 0.17 crashes on startup when it tries to display the initial setup dialog.
This bug has already been fixed in the upstream SVN version.
I'm attaching two patches that fix this bug.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Thanks a lot. Guillaume: will you roll a release soon or should be package the patch?

[Guillaume Desmottes (cassidy)]

Tbh, I'm not very active in xchat-gnome anymore. You should ask to David (purple_cow) a release, but I think there is good chance we'll have one during Gusty developpement cycle.

[Guillaume Desmottes (cassidy)]

xchat-gnome 0.18 was just released and should fix this bug.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

xchat-gnome (1:0.18-0ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
  * debian/patches/80_dont_print_translation_infos_to_query.patch
    - dropped

 -- Baptiste Mille-Mathias <email address hidden> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 21:26:46 +0200

[Giorgio Vazzana (mywing)]

Hi, I'm running Ubuntu Gutsy on a i386 and I've just upgraded my installation. Unfortunately, I still have this problem with xchat-gnome 1:0.18-0ubuntu2. When I try to run the program I get:

holden@flick:~$ xchat-gnome
XChat CRITICAL *** default event text failed to build!
Aborted (core dumped)

Does anyone have the same problem?

[macro182 (macro182)]

I receive the same error...whit Gutsy 32bit and xchat-gnome 0.18

[Alessandro Gervaso (gervystar)]

I confirm this on gutsy i386.
I hoped to see it fixed before the release, I'm relying on pidgin in the meanwhile.

[Alessandro Gervaso (gervystar)]

If it could be useful, launching it using LANG=C works.

alessandro@whisper:~$ echo $LANG
it_IT.UTF-8
alessandro@whisper:~$ xchat-gnome
XChat CRITICAL *** default event text failed to build!
Aborted (core dumped)

alessandro@whisper:~$ LANG=C xchat-gnome
(this one works)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The bug described has been fixed, if you still have a crash you should open a new one with a debug backtrace

[Alpha4 (colligia)]

I confirm the xchat issue here, on my Ubuntu Gutsy.
And the hack proposed by Alessandro Gervaso works... maybe the bug wasn't really solved?

[Telefo (buonprezzo)]

I have the same bug on Ubuntu Gutsy and xchat-gnome version 0.18-0ubuntu3.
Alessandro's workaround works to me too

[Mefisto (dariovezzosi)]

confirmed also in Hardy, package version 1:0.18-1ubuntu1 x86 architechture

[David Hernández (davidhdz)]

problem continues in Hardy, package version 1:0.18-2ubuntu4.1 x86 architecture

[Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga)]

This started happening for me mid-cycle in Natty, just tested on a fresh Oneiric install, could this be re-opened?

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

The issue you are having is not the same. Please open a new bug with backtrace information. Thanks.