Gaim crashes when connecting to Msn.

[agostinomaurotto]

I had a fresh install of Dapper flight 3 just this morning, and i found the following problem:
gaim works perfectly with all the protocols but Msn, if i activate Msn as soon as it connects the gaim main window closes and the program exits.
The only way to make gaim work is not connecting to Msn protocol.
I will try to update by update manager and see if this helps.

[Phil Bull (philbull)]

Thanks for the report.

Could you provide some more information, please? Take a look at the following page on how to get some useful information from the crash:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash

Before you try that, you might like to try running gaim from the terminal. When it crashes, it might output some useful error text on the terminal, which you can copy into this bug.

[agostinomaurotto (agostino-maurotto)]

this is the terminal output from gaim:

Gaim has segfaulted and attempted to dump a core file.
This is a bug in the software and has happened through
no fault of your own.

It is possible that this bug is already fixed in CVS.
If you can reproduce the crash, please notify the gaim
maintainers by reporting a bug at
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/bug.php

Please make sure to specify what you were doing at the time,
and post the backtrace from the core file. If you do not know
how to get the backtrace, please get instructions at
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/gdb.php. If you need further
assistance, please IM either SeanEgn or LSchiere and
they can help you.
Aborted

[agostinomaurotto (agostino-maurotto)]

gdb output:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1219364320 (LWP 26134)]
0xb77747df in wcscoll_l () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt full
#0 0xb77747df in wcscoll_l () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
No symbol table info available.
#1 0xb7773d61 in wcscoll () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
No symbol table info available.
#2 0xb78845e6 in g_utf8_collate () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#3 0x080943c7 in gaim_utf8_strcasecmp ()
No symbol table info available.
#4 0x080b1807 in gaim_gtk_blist_refresh ()
No symbol table info available.
#5 0x080afbf6 in gaim_gtk_blist_sort_method_unreg ()
No symbol table info available.
#6 0x080b03c0 in gaim_gtk_blist_refresh ()
No symbol table info available.
#7 0x080afd46 in gaim_gtk_blist_sort_method_unreg ()
No symbol table info available.
#8 0x0808d2c0 in serv_got_update ()
No symbol table info available.
#9 0xb71ba620 in msn_user_update () from /usr/lib/gaim/libmsn.so
No symbol table info available.
#10 0xb71b06bd in msn_notification_close () from /usr/lib/gaim/libmsn.so
No symbol table info available.
#11 0xb71a6ee4 in msn_cmdproc_process_cmd () from /usr/lib/gaim/libmsn.so
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
No symbol table info available.
#12 0xb71a7033 in msn_cmdproc_process_cmd_text () from /usr/lib/gaim/libmsn.so
No symbol table info available.
#13 0xb71b3cef in msn_servconn_write () from /usr/lib/gaim/libmsn.so
No symbol table info available.
#14 0x080c7cf6 in gaim_gtkdialogs_remove_chat ()
No symbol table info available.
#15 0xb7887fbc in g_vasprintf () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#16 0xb7861547 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#17 0xb7864606 in g_main_context_check () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#18 0xb7864928 in g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#19 0xb7cb92c5 in gtk_main () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#20 0x080f41f7 in main ()
No symbol table info available.
(gdb)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you, according to the backtrace that's a duplicate of bug #28640 which is a libc issue