Pidgin crashes often and leads to xorg zap

[Bremm]

It happens so often and kicks me back to gdm. The unique solution I've found was run pidgin in a console window, to avoid get a xorg zap.

BTW, apport isn't catching this.

[12567.336596] pidgin[28473]: segfault at 54554f ip 00007f733952231b sp 00007fff426bd070 error 4 in libglib-2.0.so.0.2000.0[7f73394d7000+c3000]
[13249.163217] pidgin[28494] general protection ip:3d22478659 sp:7fff3e6e2460 error:0 in libc-2.9.so[3d22400000+168000]

$ pidgin -v
Pidgin 2.5.5

$ uname -a
Linux host 2.6.28-2-rt #6-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT RT Tue Mar 10 02:10:20 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release: 9.04

[[e-mail] (j.scott.gwin)]

Thank you for reporting this problem, it helps us make Ubuntu better. Please answer a few questions:

1. Please list the exact steps we need to take to reproduce this bahavior.
2. How often does this behavior happen? Always, most of the time or occasionally?

This will help, thank you

[Bremm (bremm)]

2009/3/16 J. Scott Gwin <email address hidden>:
> Thank you for reporting this problem, it helps us make Ubuntu better.
> Please answer a few questions:
>
> 1.  Please list the exact steps we need to take to reproduce this bahavior.

Open Pidgin and wait it crash, dragging the xserver session together.

> 2. How often does this behavior happen?  Always, most of the time or occasionally?

It happens ramdomly. Since last restart it's working 2 hours or more.

I have a file with debugging output, but I can't put it here (may have
confidential data). Could I send it to your e-mail?

> This will help, thank you
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[Bremm (bremm)]

The xorg zap is unrelated to Pidgin. Now, few minutes after a reboot it happened again, but Pidgin wasn't running.

If I get a clue about this, I'll open another bug report regarding the xorg behaviour.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you try if that's still an issue in jaunty?

[Bremm (bremm)]

Dear Sebastien,

This bug affected me till I move myself onto nouveau driver. You can see my brief explanation at bug #342324.

Cheers.

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed with a change to a free driver. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the revealed drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status. Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please submit any future bugs you may find.