aMSN hangs if it hase 2 or more offline messages.

[Zippert]

Binary package hint: amsn

aMSN crash if it have 2 or more off line messages waiting on startup.
It seams that the two messages fighting to be over the the oder.

[soonick (soonick-cancun)]

are this messages from the same person? or they have to be from to diferent contacts?

[MicKy (miguelsanz)]

I have the same problem. The messages are from different contacts.

Ubuntu 8.04
aMSN 0.97 12/25/2007 installed via Synaptic
window manager: metacity.

[Kevin (kevin64-deactivatedaccount)]

Please, as

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/amsn/+bug/228933

You could try install tk package?

[Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m)]

Has anyone tried installing the tk package as Kevin suggested? Did it help?

[Harrison Conlin (harrisony)]

Is this bug still reproducible on Intrepid

[Juan (jagpsico)]

I confirm the bug: When you're receiving offline messages from 2 or more contacts the same time, AMSN 0.97 tcl/tk 8.5 (the one from the repositories) crashed the whole system (you need to restart the computer using the switch here)... Any solution for this?

[Juan (jagpsico)]

I've found my self a workaround for this bug, googling it. It was found here http://www.amsn-project.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5407. It's pretty easy, so no explanations needed. So far it seems to solve the problem. All credit to billiob user there at amsn forums. Hope you'll find it usefull. This is the kind of bugs I hate when trying to get people out of win$... :-P

[petski (petski)]

According to the link [1] Juan mentioned, the fix is available in 0.97.2 which is available in most releases [2]

[1] http://www.amsn-project.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5407
[2] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/amsn