pidgin crashed with SIGSEGV in strlen()

[Matt Walker]

Binary package hint: pidgin

Pidgin crashed, though it was sitting idle

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
Package: pidgin 1:2.5.0-0ubuntu2
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: pidgin
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/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/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 vfprintf () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 __vasprintf_chk () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 IA__g_vasprintf (string=0xbfe972c4,
 IA__g_strdup_printf (
Title: pidgin crashed with SIGSEGV in strlen()
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-2-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout fuse lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:strlen () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
vfprintf () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
__vasprintf_chk () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
IA__g_vasprintf (string=0xbfe972c4,
IA__g_strdup_printf (format=0xb5e376b8 <Address 0xb5e376b8 out of bounds>)

[Tony McKenzie (mckenzie-tony)]

same, if i leave the computer and come back to chat it will usually fade to grey and will occasionally come back to life. Allows me to force quit but no prompt for bug report pops up.
8.10 alpha6 x86

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04? Thanks in advance.

[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!.