pidgin crashed with SIGSEGV in notify_get_server_caps()

[mobrien118]

Binary package hint: pidgin

In Pidgin, unchecked the box for "libnotify" in the plugins settings. Then I re-checked it about 10 seconds later. Pidgin crashed.

Let me know what else I can do to help.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: pidgin 1:2.6.6-1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Apr 12 00:51:44 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
ProcCmdline: pidgin
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f76e229bd80 <notify_get_server_caps+224>: mov 0x8(%rax),%rcx
 PC (0x7f76e229bd80) ok
 source "0x8(%rax)" (0x00000008) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rcx" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: pidgin
StacktraceTop:
 notify_get_server_caps ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/purple-2/pidgin-libnotify.so
 purple_plugin_load () from /usr/lib/libpurple.so.0
 ?? ()
 g_closure_invoke ()
Title: pidgin crashed with SIGSEGV in notify_get_server_caps()
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare vboxusers

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Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #556242, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.