pidgin crashed with SIGSEGV in strlen()

[Scott Wegner]

Binary package hint: pidgin

I just received this crash for the first time when trying to join a new IRC chat via the "/join #channel" command. It crashed before the new message window ever appeared.

Running updated Hardy beta on AMD64 with Pidgin 2.4.1

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Apr 16 23:25:07 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: pidgin 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdline: pidgin
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: pidgin
StacktraceTop:
 strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6
 puts () from /lib/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/pidgin/xchat-chats.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/pidgin/xchat-chats.so
 purple_conversation_new ()
Title: pidgin crashed with SIGSEGV in strlen()
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-12-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse kvm libvirtd lpadmin mythtv netdev plugdev powerdev sambashare scanner video

[Scott Wegner (swegner)]

I'd also like to note that this happened for the second time, so it's seemingly reproducible. The steps I take are:

1) Launch pidgin from the Ubuntu menu. This auto-connects to an AIM account, and IRC on irc.freenode.net. Also, a window pops up with the message "freenode-connect: Received CTCP 'VERSION' (to scottwegner) from freenode-connect"
2) In the freenode-connect IRC window, type the command "/join #ubuntu" to join a chat.
3) Pidgin crashes with apport bug.

[Scott Wegner (swegner)]

Still getting this bug. I'm not sure if Apport collects enough data, so I've gotten a backtrace from gdb as well.

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6
puts () from /lib/libc.so.6
hack_and_get_widget (gtkconv=<value optimized out>)
purple_conversation_use_xtext (conv=0x11e2ba0)
purple_conversation_new (type=PURPLE_CONV_TYPE_CHAT,