Pidgin crashes with "Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)" unless started using "strace pidgin"

[Frank Quist]

Binary package hint: pidgin

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"
ii pidgin 1:2.3.1-2ubuntu1

Lots of people in #hardy+1 having trouble with this.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jan 31 18:16:38 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: pidgin 1:2.3.1-2ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: pidgin
ProcCwd: /home/frank
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=C
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux frank-hardy 2.6.24-5-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 24 19:45:21 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

[ScislaC (scislac)]

I've also experienced this. In fact, it's a few different apps that all crash with the same error (compiz is doing the same for me, but it may be when it calls emerald that it happens).

[Frank Quist (frankquist)]

I presume this is what has been reported already in some private bugs, and was reported upstream at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513495. Indeed the "unset G_DEBUG" workaround fixed the problem for me.

[zpon (zpon-dk)]

Got the same error. If my network (internet) connection is not up, the crash first happens when i get network again.

pidgin -d
[...]
(22:46:14) nautilus: don't save blist online. No change
(22:46:19) nautilus: don't save blist online. No change
(22:46:24) nautilus: don't save blist online. No change
(22:46:29) nautilus: don't save blist online. No change
<------- network up
(22:46:30) network: Entering nm_callback_func!
(22:46:30) autorecon: do_signon called
(22:46:30) autorecon: calling purple_account_connect
(22:46:30) account: Connecting to account ****@hotmail.com
(22:44:46) connection: Connecting. gc = 0xdfa6f0
(22:44:46) msn: new httpconn (0xdfbcd0)
(22:44:46) g_log: purple_url_encode: assertion `str != NULL' failed
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)

[zpon (zpon-dk)]

After i have done unset G_DEBUG pidgin works again, but only if it is run from terminal, doing [alt]+F2 and entering pidgin it still crashes.

[Doug Wibby (dwibby)]

I was also encountering the same error. In attempting to work around the issue, I tried using Finch which worked until an MSN account was enabled, which promptly crashed Finch. Starting Pidgin with --nologin option allowed Pidgin to work normally, and--as long as no MSN accounts were enabled--allows for a restart without the --nologin option. If this method works for this problem, this bug might be related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187604