Pidgin stops responding on starting an audio call

[Prateek Karandikar]

Binary package hint: pidgin

I was logged in in Pidgin on an XMPP account, and tried to start an audio call with an XMPP buddy. A tiny window with no content appeared and disappeared. Then the Pidgin window stopped responding - it did not respond to mouse clicks or key presses or attempts to close Pidgin from the X button.

The apport information was obtained by running apport-bug <pid> after Pidgin went into this state.

Pidgin's debug info is also attached.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Nov 2 18:28:27 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
Package: pidgin 1:2.6.2-1ubuntu7
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_IN
 LANGUAGE=
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Prateek Karandikar (prateek.karandikar)]

And now my Pidgin crashed as a result of a friend of mine attempting to call me. I guess this makes it a security vulnerability?

[mtu (mtu)]

Low priority, huh? Sure, it's only the most obvious free alternative to Skype, and an important feature for online communication, but hey, that's a pretty low priority.

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test a current, supported, Ubuntu version. Thanks in advance

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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