[karmic] kopete crashing when *Now Listening* plugin is enabled after update on july 30.

[Jithin Emmanuel]

Binary package hint: kopete

When Now Listening plugin is enabled and if I have amarok running. Kopete crashes. It not a crash actually, it just disappears. Disabling Now Listening plugin fixes the issue.

It started happening after update on July 30 with the following changelog

kdenetwork (4:4.2.98-0ubuntu2) karmic; urgency=low

  * Rebuild with new pkg-kde-tools to build translation templates

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Could you get a backtrace please?

[Jithin Emmanuel (jithin1987)]

Its not like a crash it just disappears. But no backtrace and all. Even if I start from konsole all the logs it generate are normal ones. This is what logs I get if I start from konsole

Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing.
Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing.
Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing.
Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing.
Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing.
Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing.
Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing.
Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing.
jithine@grainlead-lx:~$ Object::connect: No such signal ClientStream::disconnected()
Object::connect: (receiver name: 'yahooclient')
Unknown signature value: 0
Transfer ACCEPTED by: LoginTask
Transfer ACCEPTED by: LoginTask
Transfer ACCEPTED by: ListTask
QPainter::begin: Cannot paint on a null pixmap
QPainter::translate: Painter not active
QPainter::end: Painter not active, aborted
QPainter::begin: Cannot paint on a null pixmap
QPainter::translate: Painter not active
QPainter::end: Painter not active, aborted
Transfer ACCEPTED by: StatusNotifierTask
CLIENT: RequestPictureTask: Task::done()
CLIENT: RequestPictureTask: emitting finished
Transfer ACCEPTED by: LoginTask
CLIENT: RequestPictureTask: Task::done()
CLIENT: RequestPictureTask: emitting finished
CLIENT: RequestPictureTask: Task::done()
CLIENT: RequestPictureTask: emitting finished
Transfer ACCEPTED by: StatusNotifierTask
QPainter::begin: Cannot paint on a null pixmap
QPainter::translate: Painter not active
QPainter::end: Painter not active, aborted
CLIENT: RequestPictureTask: Task::done()
CLIENT: RequestPictureTask: emitting finished
CLIENT: RequestPictureTask: Task::done()
CLIENT: RequestPictureTask: emitting finished
CLIENT: RequestPictureTask: Task::done()
CLIENT: RequestPictureTask: emitting finished
CLIENT: RequestPictureTask: Task::done()
CLIENT: RequestPictureTask: emitting finished
CLIENT: RequestPictureTask: Task::done()
CLIENT: RequestPictureTask: emitting finished
CLIENT: RequestPictureTask: Task::done()
CLIENT: RequestPictureTask: emitting finished
CLIENT: RequestPictureTask: Task::done()
CLIENT: RequestPictureTask: emitting finished
CLIENT: RequestPictureTask: Task::done()
CLIENT: RequestPictureTask: emitting finished
CLIENT: RequestPictureTask: Task::done...

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Interesting. Could you try running it through gdb (https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Backtrace) after installing kdenetwork-dbg please? gdb is usually quite good at catching such crashes.

[Jithin Emmanuel (jithin1987)]

Still nothing. Attaching output file.

[Jithin Emmanuel (jithin1987)]

Finally got something.

Continuing.

Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing.
Setting status to ""
starting update status request...

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x04c896e4 in ?? () from /usr/lib/kde4/kopete_facebook.so
(gdb)
Continuing.
[Thread 0xb5effb70 (LWP 15452) exited]
[Thread 0xb68c7b70 (LWP 15451) exited]

Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
The program no longer exists.
(gdb) bt
No stack.

Facebook plugin also causes crash when setting status to offline from toolbar. This is the bug report for that.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kopete/+bug/408749

[Jithin Emmanuel (jithin1987)]

dmesg shows this

[98668.472689] kopete[18014]: segfault at 8 ip 018586e4 sp bf8cc2a0 error 4 in kopete_facebook.so[1843000+2a000]

[Jithin Emmanuel (jithin1987)]

Upstream bug dealing with the issue.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198675

[Bruno Bigras (brunoqc)]

the upstream bug was just closed as resolved.

Anyone still having this crash with the new package from karmic-proposed?

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Facebook now supports chat via XMPP (aka Jabber), which is a native plugin to Kopete. Due to this change of circumstances kopete-facebook was recently removed from the archives in favor of the present solution. It is currently not planed to deploy further updates to the version used in Kubuntu karmic.

http://duncan.mac-vicar.com/blog/archives/644