Pidgin crashes when the mail notification is clicked when my account is disconnected

[antonioni]

Binary package hint: pidgin

1) I connect with Pidgin in a PC with my MSN account.
2) I receive a mail notification (yellow bar).
3) I connect with Pidgin in another PC, without disconnect from the first PC.
4) I come back to the first PC and my account is shown 'disconnected', and a mail notification yellow bar is shown, too.
5) I click in the mail notification, and Pidgin crashes.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Sep 29 09:31:25 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
Package: pidgin 1:2.5.1-1~getdeb1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/j2sdk1.6-sun/bin
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package

[antonioni (antonioni-rocha)]

I have executed Pidgin via terminal and the message shown from this bug is "SEGMENTATION FAULT".

[Magnus S (magnuss)]

Hi, thanks for reporting this. Can you still reproduce this bug? If so, please do a backtrace (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Backtrace), and attach to this report.

Thanks.
//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!.

[patman0623 (patman0623)]

I can confirm this bug

[patman0623 (patman0623)]

confirmed I meant

[patman0623 (patman0623)]

Confirmed:

1. I have several email accounts I pull from, but to be honest, I only ever receive new mail on my gmail account.
2. My ethernet cord stinks. This is critical: one must be *disconnected* from the mail server, and reconnected.
3. Pidgin then goes and re-retrieves the list of new mails, mistakenly appending to the new list of emails instead of replacing them. This can cause duplicate errors, and recurs for every reconnect. I can tell, for example, that I have reconnected 9 times, because I have 12 mails, each listed 9 times for a total of 108 new mails.
4. Open the new mail dialogue. Press the close button. Pidgin dies; terminal reports a segmentation fault.

Undoubtedly, it is trying to free more memory than has actually been allocated. It probably only allocated for the correct amount of mails in the first place (e.g., 12), but is then trying to free for the whole amount later (e.g., 108).

The backtrace seems to confirm, in my n00b view of the program, that it crashed in the free() function.

I cannot attach any further files, as I have no idea how to create a dependencies.txt or whatever

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: x86_64
Date: Fri Feb 7 00:07:00 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
Package: pidgin 1:2.5.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 19:28:32 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[shankao (shankao)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, according to this report, you are not using the most recent version of this package for your Ubuntu release. Please upgrade to the most recent version and let us know if you are still having this issue. Thanks in advance.