Gaim hangs when you try to paste

[Joanmarie]

Binary package hint: gaim

1. Launch Gaim
2. Launch Gedit, type some text, select it, and copy it
3. Open a window to IM a buddy and use Control V to paste the copied text into the text box.

At this point Gaim hangs and its process must be killed.

I can reproduce this 100% of the time on my two Edgy boxes. I CANNOT reproduce this on my dapper box on which I have installed Gaim 2.0 b3 from SF.

[Joanmarie (joanmarie-diggs-deactivatedaccount)]

I couldn't get a backtrace from within X; had to launch a virtual console. Not sure if it will help, but here it is all the same. :)

[Mark Doliner (thekingant)]

What version of Gaim is in Edgy? If it's SVN from the past week or two then this bug has probably been fixed. It looks like it's related to when we enabled threads to work around some problems when using d-bus and also the newer, thread-using version of gnome-vfs. But we have removed the thread usage now that d-bus 0.92 fixes the problem in a better way.

[Joanmarie (joanmarie-diggs-deactivatedaccount)]

Okay, I just installed the latest beta (2.0b3.1) from SF. The bug is indeed fixed in that version. Thanks so much!!

[Mark Doliner (thekingant)]

Er, well Gaim 2.0.0 beta 3.1 is basically just 2.0.0 beta 3 + some critical patches. If you were previously using something from a recent SVN then it might still be a good idea to verify that the bug is fixed in a build of SVN from the past day or two.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you still have the issue with the edgy gaim 2.0beta3.1 package? it has a workaround for the dbus locking issue too

[Joanmarie (joanmarie-diggs-deactivatedaccount)]

I'm afraid I do....

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

does it happen without using the accessibility feature? the backtrace points to libgail

[Joanmarie (joanmarie-diggs-deactivatedaccount)]

Ya know, I tried it without Orca *running*, but I hadn't actually tried disabling the accessibility feature. The problem does NOT occur when the accessibility feature is not enabled.

[Joanmarie (joanmarie-diggs-deactivatedaccount)]

I just tried to reproduce this again given all of the recent Edgy updates. It seems to be fixed.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

marking as fixed then. Feel free to reopen if you get the issue again

[LimCore (limcore)]

When I paste HTML text (no so long, around 50 lines x 20 characters when in HMTL), then gaim/pidgin freezes for about 7-8 seconds (amd64 dualcore)