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[Colin Dean]

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I saw these guys perform at Coachella, and their live show flat-out rocks. I was so impressed I bought the album as soon as I got home. The record is creative at first, but wears thin pretty quickly. Eventually the lead singer's constant flip flop between an over-the-top Robert Plant imitation and a weird falsetto gets annoying, and the songs all bleed into one sound.
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Every song on this album has a reference to fire and dancing, yet there is an unfathomable genius to Fire. The first track, "Dance Commander" makes you wanna do just that: Dance like a f*cking madman and play the air guitar. The rest of the album lives up to the kickass beginning. From the hard-rockin' songs (She's White, Naked Pictures) to the disco rock songs (Electric Demons In Love, I'm The Bomb, Danger! High Voltage) to the 80s synthesizer-driven beauty (Synthesizer) these guys rock every genre they touch on. It's one of my favorite albums ever and I'm sure people with a thing for disco or indie rock or just some fun stuff to dance to will like it also.
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Anyone interested in some over the top, cheezy synth rock will enjoy this disc. Is this a ground-breaking record? No. Is it fun to listen to and worth a few bucks? I think so. It won't change your life but you will shake your rump. And someone needs to tell the Amazon reviewer that Kiss is not from Detroit.
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At first, I thought there was a character that was making it freeze, but then when I pasted in here, I see that the text is enormous. So, rather than it being a single character, it's probably some kind of overflow.

It seems that the behavior should be to warn the user that his/her input is too big.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Nov 8 15:05:47 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: pidgin 1:2.2.1-1ubuntu4
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: pidgin
ProcCwd: /home/colin
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux m8i 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[arno_b (arno.b)]

For me, Pidgin freezes during a couple of second but there is no crash.

[Andrea Colangelo (warp10)]

Same behaviour as Arnaud.

Try again, and wait a few seconds (or a few minutes) to see if pidgin really crash or just freezes for a while.

[Colin Dean (colindean)]

Hmm. It worked for me. I wonder if the string length was longer because of rich text or the like.

So, I went to an item on Amazon and (Select All + Copy)'d and pasted into the text window (which is probably what I originally accidentally did).

It's been sitting for about 5 minutes and has yet to paste the text or do anything else of its own accord. I pasted the same text into Firefox, and appeared instantaneously.

Is there a way to see what's on the clipboard without having to paste into a writeable field?

[Andrea Colangelo (warp10)]

Colin, you may want to check out glipper or klipper. Please report any evidence you can get from these tool, so that we can understand if this is really bug

[Colin Dean (colindean)]

I could not determine anything useful. When copying the text, it appears to go onto the clipboard as plain text. I also tried pasting into OpenOffice Writer using both the regular paste function as well as Edit > Paste Special. Paste Special should show the formats which the content of the clipboard can pasted, and only plain text is listed.

So this is only affecting me? I'm the only one who can crash Pidgin by copying and pasting the contents of an Amazon.com page? Odd. I'm not using anything that's not from the Ubuntu repos.

[Colin Dean (colindean)]

I tried to reproduce this again using a different setup. Previously, I was using Ubuntu i686 on a Sempron 2800+ with 512 MB of RAM. I just tried it on a much newer machine--X2 6000+ and 8 GB of RAM on amd64--and the bug is still there.

All I had to do was go to an Amazon item page, hit Ctrl+A to select all of the text on the page, then copy and paste it into a Pidgin conversation. Compiz helped me a little bit this time in realizing that Pidgin is crashing/looping/not working when it made it black and white.

[Connor Imes (ckimes)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Colin Dean (colindean)]

Conner, the behavior is still there. I've tried it with my normal set of plugins, as well as entirely without them.

[Connor Imes (ckimes)]

OK, since nobody can reproduce this bug, but you still have the problem, I will change the status back to New so that the bug won't expire. Hopefully somebody will be able to reproduce the bug.

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

How about requesting some information to triage? Could you please start pidgin by doing

"strace pidgin 2&>1 > strace-pidgin"

Then please reproduce the hang and attach the file here. Also, please state what is the packageversion of pidgin you are using:

sudo apt-cache policy pidgin

Thanks.

[Colin Dean (colindean)]

output of apt-cache policy pidgin:

pidgin:
  Installed: 1:2.4.3-0ubuntu1~hardy1
  Candidate: 1:2.4.3-0ubuntu1~hardy1
  Version table:
 *** 1:2.4.3-0ubuntu1~hardy1 0
        500 http://ubuntu.media.mit.edu hardy-backports/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.1 0
        500 http://ubuntu.media.mit.edu hardy-updates/main Packages
     1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://ubuntu.media.mit.edu hardy/main Packages

There was nothing in the stack trace. Could this because pidgin doesn't actually segfault/crash? It goes into an infinite loop, I think, and can only be kill'd or force-quitted by the window manager.

Here's another thing I discovered: if I "Paste as plain text", it works fine. It is regular Paste that causes this behavior.

I have a theory: does the display widget that Pidgin uses for entry/display attempt to fetch remote images? I know it will keep <a>, <b>, and <i> tags in the pasted text if it was HTML. Perhaps that's the problem, then: that Pidgin tries to render of some of the images or block-level HTML in the pasted text and fails while doing so.

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.

[Colin Dean (colindean)]

I just tried it on Intrepid amd64, and the behavior still exists. I don't have a Jaunty box set up yet, but will in the next two weeks or so.

Remember, the trick is to go to Amazon.com, go to an item page, Select All, Copy, paste into a Pidgin window. The text in the description is how it renders in Firefox, not what is actually on the clipboard at the time its contents are pasted into the Pidgin window.

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

switching back to new

[Colin Dean (colindean)]

This bug is still present as of Jaunty.

[Colin Dean (colindean)]

Totally scratch that. It took ~3-4 minutes, but it pasted it.