[jaunty] pidgin crashes with Segmentation fault

[Aleksandr Panzin]

Binary package hint: pidgin

Crashes each time. Will not startup at all. With the following message,

(01:56:49) oscar: connected to FLAP server of type 0x0002
(01:56:49) yahoo: 216 bytes to read, rxlen is 301
(01:56:49) yahoo: Yahoo Service: 0xf0 Status: 0
(01:56:49) pidgin-libnotify: event_connection_throttle() called
(01:56:49) connection: Activating keepalive.
(01:56:49) yahoo: Unknown status key 241
(01:56:49) yahoo: Unknown status key 302
(01:56:49) yahoo: Unknown status key 300
(01:56:49) yahoo: Unknown status key 198
(01:56:49) yahoo: Unknown status key 213
(01:56:49) yahoo: Unknown status key 301
(01:56:49) yahoo: Unknown status key 303
(01:56:49) blist: Updating buddy status for ***** (Yahoo)
(01:56:49) nautilus: saved blist online
(01:56:49) yahoo: 18 bytes to read, rxlen is 65
(01:56:49) yahoo: Yahoo Service: 0x12 Status: 1
(01:56:49) yahoo: Unhandled service 0x12
(01:56:49) yahoo: 7 bytes to read, rxlen is 27
(01:56:49) yahoo: Yahoo Service: 0x0b Status: 1
(01:56:49) dns: Successfully sent DNS request to child 5570
(01:56:49) nss: subject=CN=gmail.com,O=Google Inc.,L=Mountain View,ST=California,C=US issuer=OU=Equifax Secure Certificate Authority,O=Equifax,C=US
(01:56:49) nss: subject=OU=Equifax Secure Certificate Authority,O=Equifax,C=US issuer=OU=Equifax Secure Certificate Authority,O=Equifax,C=US
(01:56:49) certificate/x509/tls_cached: Starting verify for talk.google.com
(01:56:49) certificate/x509/tls_cached: Checking for cached cert...
(01:56:49) certificate/x509/tls_cached: ...Found cached cert
(01:56:49) nss/x509: Loading certificate from /home/****/.purple/certificates/x509/tls_peers/talk.google.com
(01:56:49) certificate/x509/tls_cached: Peer cert matched cached
(01:56:49) certificate: Successfully verified certificate for talk.google.com
dns[5572]: Oops, father has gone, wait for me, wait...!
dns[5571]: Oops, father has gone, wait for me, wait...!
dns[5569]: Oops, father has gone, wait for me, wait...!
Segmentation fault

Version info:

Package: pidgin
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 1:2.5.5-1ubuntu5

I removed everything and added only Google Talk account, this is shown before Segmentation Fault:

... a lot of loading of certs...
(02:15:16) certificate/x509/ca: Loaded /usr/share/purple/ca-certs/VeriSign_International_Server_Class_3_CA.pem
(02:15:16) nss/x509: Loading certificate from /usr/share/purple/ca-certs/AOL_Member_CA.pem
(02:15:16) certificate/x509/ca: Loaded /usr/share/purple/ca-certs/AOL_Member_CA.pem
(02:15:16) certificate/x509/ca: Lazy init completed.
(02:15:16) nss/x509: Exporting certificate to /home/****/.purple/certificates/x509/tls_peers/gmail.com
(02:15:16) util: Writing file /home/****/.purple/certificates/x509/tls_peers/gmail.com
(02:15:16) certificate: Successfully verified certificate for gmail.com
dns[5767]: Oops, father has gone, wait for me, wait...!
Segmentation fault

Most other accounts don't have that effect.

[Matt Joiner (anacrolix)]

I believe i'm getting the same crash, and it's linked to gtalk.

[Ediczech (ediczech)]

Same problem with Pidgin 2.5.5 on Jaunty.

ICQ works well, but when I activate Jabber acount Pidgin crashes.

[bia (ebia.tty0)]

today's update...
段错误 (core dumped)
1:2.5.5-1ubuntu7 crashed!!

[JotaCapa (jose-azevedo2)]

I've the same problem.

Only when use with Google Talk.

[dudous (eduardo-gobbo)]

When i enter pidgin with an ms account like <email address hidden> it works fine, but when i try to enter a registered username like <email address hidden> it crashes during startup.