pidgin crashed when switching between wired and wireless networks

[Copernicvs]

Binary package hint: pidgin

when switching to wireless for a minute, and then back pidgin (2.4.1) crashed

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Apr 15 01:03:13 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: pidgin 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: pidgin
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_HK.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: pidgin
StacktraceTop:
 free () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 g_free () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 qq_add_buddy_request_free () from /usr/lib/purple-2/libqq.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/purple-2/libqq.so
 ?? ()
Title: pidgin crashed with SIGSEGV in free()
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev video
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xb763d4da <free+122>: lock cmpxchg %ecx,(%esi)
 PC (0xb763d4da) ok
 source "%ecx" ok
 destination "(%esi)" (0x636f7473) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing unknown VMA

[Magnus S (magnuss)]

Hi, thanks for the report. Is this bug still reproducible? If so, please attach a fresh backtrace by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Backtrace.

//magnus

[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!.

[BlueT - Matthew Lien - 練喆明 (bluet)]

I got similar problem too.
when my laptop was suddently got disconnected from the Fon AP, pidgin crashed.

[BlueT - Matthew Lien - 練喆明 (bluet)]

matthew@Priapus:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
matthew@Priapus:~$ LANG="C" apt-cache policy pidgin
pidgin:
  Installed: 1:2.5.2-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:2.5.2-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1:2.5.2-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ftp.twaren.net intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[BlueT - Matthew Lien - 練喆明 (bluet)]

and this is the BackTrace result.

[bbordwell (benbordwell)]

Is this bug still reproducible in lucid? If so could you please reproduce it and create a new backtrace? Also BlueT, your last backtrace had alot of unresolved symbols in it, if you need help getting a backtrace with all the symbols included I can meet you in IRC sometime.

[Vish (vish)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. 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".