Pidgin 2.4.1 crash at startup when i'm using compiz-fusion.
The 2.4.0 version work perfectly.
So, i think its a bug
I'm using ubuntu 8.04 x86
Report when i want to start pidgin :
*** glibc detected *** pidgin: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x0861cff0 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb768ba85]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(cfree+0x90)[0xb768f4f0]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_free+0x31)[0xb77ec8b1]
/usr/lib/libpurple.so.0[0xb790672f]
/usr/lib/libpurple.so.0(purple_proxy_get_setup+0x92)[0xb790a22c]
/usr/lib/libpurple.so.0(purple_proxy_connect+0x10f)[0xb790a57a]
/usr/lib/libpurple.so.0(purple_util_fetch_url_request+0x1b7)[0xb792f1fe]
/usr/lib/libpurple.so.0[0xb791f317]
/usr/lib/libpurple.so.0[0xb791f551]
/usr/lib/libpurple.so.0[0xb791e949]
/usr/lib/libpurple.so.0[0xb792ebf7]
pidgin[0x80abca3]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0[0xb7818c5d]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_dispatch+0x178)[0xb77e4bf8]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0[0xb77e7e5e]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_loop_run+0x1e7)[0xb77e81e7]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(gtk_main+0xb4)[0xb7ca6264]
pidgin(main+0xbbc)[0x80c70d5]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0)[0xb7636450]
pidgin[0x806c821]
======= Memory map: ========
08048000-08115000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 3778096 /usr/bin/pidgin
08115000-08118000 rw-p 000cc000 08:01 3778096 /usr/bin/pidgin
08118000-08640000 rw-p 08118000 00:00 0 [heap]
b3e00000-b3e21000 rw-p b3e00000 00:00 0
b3e21000-b3f00000 ---p b3e21000 00:00 0
b3ffb000-b405b000 rw-s 00000000 00:09 39223310 /SYSV00000000 (deleted)
b405b000-b415f000 rw-p b405b000 00:00 0
b415f000-b41e6000 r--p 00000000 08:01 3901029 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf
b41e6000-b4cf4000 r--s 00000000 08:01 3547779 /var/lib/aspell/fr-60-only.rws
b4cf4000-b5283000 r--s 00000000 08:01 3547778 /var/lib/aspell/fr-40-only.rws
b5283000-b5284000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 3802346 /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-cedilla.so
b5284000-b5285000 rw-p 00000000 08:01 3802346 /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-cedilla.so
b5285000-b5389000 rw-p b5285000 00:00 0
b5389000-b538b000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 3834544 /usr/lib/pango/1.6.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so
b538b000-b538c000 rw-p 00001000 08:01 3834544 /usr/lib/pango/1.6.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so
b538c000-b541d000 r--p 00000000 08:01 3901030 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf
b541d000-b5423000 r--s 00000000 08:01 3547206 /var/cache/fontconfig/945677eb7aeaf62f1d50efc3fb3ec7d8-x86.cache-2
b5423000-b5426000 r--s 00000000 08:01 3547361 /var/cache/fontconfig/e383d7ea5fbe662a33d9b44caf393297-x86.cache-2
b5426000-b5427000 r--s 00000000 08:01 3547360 /var/cache/fontconfig/c69f04ab05004e31a6d5e715764f16d8-x86.cache-2
b5427000-b5428000 r--s 00000000 08:01 3547359 /var/cache/fontconfig/4c73fe0c47614734b17d736dbde7580a-x86.cache-2
b5428000-b542b000 r--s 00000000 08:01 3547358 /var/cache/fontconfig/a755afe4a08bf5b97852ceb7400b47bc-x86.cache-2
b542b000-b5432000 r--s 00000000 08:01 3547357 /var/cache/fontconfig/6d41288fd70b0be22e8c3a91e032eec0-x86.cache-2
b5432000-b5435000 r--s 00000000 08:01 3547356 /var/cache/fontconfig/de156ccd2eddbdc19d37a45b8b2aac9c-x86.cache-2
b5435000-b543d000 r--s 00000000 08:01 3547355 /var/cache/fontconfig/e3de0de479f42330eadf588a55fb5bf4-x86.cache-2
b543d000-b5445000 r--s 00000000 08:01 3547354 /var/cache/fontconfig/0f34bcd4b6ee430af32735b75db7f02b-x86.cache-2
b5445000-b5446000 r--s 00000000 08:01 3547353 /var/cache/fontconfig/4794a0821666d79190d59a36cb4f44b5-x86.cache-2
b5446000-b5468000 r--s 00000000 08:01 3547812 /var/cache/fontconfig/365b55f210c0a22e9a19e35191240f32-x86.cache-2
b5468000-b546b000 r--s 00000000 08:01 3547352 /var/cache/fontconfig/de9486f0b47a4d768a594cb4198cb1c6-x86.cache-2
b546b000-b5472000 r--s 00000000 08:01 3547351 /var/cache/fontconfig/d52a8644073d54c13679302ca1180695-x86.cache-2
b5472000-b5478000 r--s 00000000 08:01 3547199 /var/cache/fontconfig/089dead882dea3570ffc31a9898cfb69-x86.cache-2
b5478000-b56af000 r--p 00000000 08:01 3991707 /usr/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache
b56af000-b575a000 r--p 00000000 08:01 3991602 /usr/share/icons/Tangerine/icon-theme.cache
b575a000-b5760000 r--p 00000000 08:01 3916236 /usr/share/locale-langpack/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gstreamer-0.10.mo
b5760000-b5771000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 3801488 /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libubuntulooks.so
b5771000-b5772000 rw-p 00011000 08:01 3801488 /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libubuntulooks.so
b5772000-b57b3000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 7315459 /usr/lib/nss/libnssckbi.so
b57b3000-b57bd000 rw-p 00041000 08:01 7315459 /usr/lib/nss/libnssckbi.so
b57bd000-b57f7000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 7315458 /usr/lib/nss/libfreebl3.so
b57f7000-b57f8000 rw-p 0003a000 08:01 7315458 /usr/lib/nss/libfreebl3.so
b57f8000-b5828000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 7315462 /usr/lib/nss/libsoftokn3.so
b5828000-b5829000 rw-p 00030000 08:01 7315462 /usr/lib/nss/libsoftokn3.so
b5829000-b582a000 ---p b5829000 00:00 0
b582a000-b602a000 rw-p b582a000 00:00 0
b602a000-b6065000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 4153384 /usr/lib/purple-2/libyahoo.so
b6065000-b6067000 rw-p 0003b000 08:01 4153384 /usr/lib/purple-2/libyahoo.so
b6067000-b6094000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 4153372 /usr/lib/purple-2/libmsn.so
b6094000-b6095000 rw-p 0002d000 08:01 4153372 /usr/lib/purple-2/libmsn.so
b6095000-b6098000 rw-p b6095000 00:00 0
b6098000-b60a3000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 4153383 /usr/lib/purple-2/libsimple.so
b60a3000-b60a4000 rw-p 0000a000 08:01 4153383 /usr/lib/purple-2/libsimple.so
b60a4000-b60b4000 rw-p b60a4000 00:00 0
b60b4000-b60c6000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 4153369 /usr/lib/purple-2/libirc.so
b60c6000-b60c7000 rw-p 00012000 08:01 4153369 /usr/lib/purple-2/libirc.so
b60c7000-b60de000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 4153373 /usr/lib/purple-2/libmyspace.so
b60de000-b60e0000 rw-p 00016000 08:01 4153373 /usr/lib/purple-2/libmyspace.so
b60e0000-b60fc000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 4153376 /usr/lib/purple-2/libnovell.so
b60fc000-b60fd000 rw-p 0001b000 08:01 4153376 /usr/lib/purple-2/libnovell.soAbandon
Thanks for the report. Is this bug still reproducible?