accounts.xml and blist.xml do not survive syscrash on XFS

[BlueStar88]

Binary package hint: pidgin

While living with the more or less stable propitary ATI-driver fglrx I'm experiencing some crashes a week (unreliable notebook suspend). While using XFS I get both files filled with zeroes after OS restart sometimes. This is a XFS typical effect on data loss caused by full system crash. Everytime it happens I have to go through pidgin's first start assistant ("Welcome to Pidgin").
My question is: Are those files kept open all the time, that they got killed on such a sudden crash? There are typically no continuous changes like on logfiles or the like to the accounts or buddies, so maybe a file close after writing the changed data could make this more reliable.

I'm not into source code, so sorry if the last point is missing the facts.

Maybe a regular backup copy (like done to the firefox bookmarks) could help.

Pidgin 2.2.1 on Gutsy, but reproducable to several previous versions (including gaim).

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I know that the origin problem is to solve (fglrx/notebook), but there is no solution in sight.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this (linux) symptom reproducible in 8.10?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.