pidgin crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_cast()

[Jānis Kangarooo]

Binary package hint: pidgin

Installed pidgin-festival plugin while pidgin was open. plugin didnt work immidiatly. after purgin and installing while closed it worked. later using it and just minimizind made pidgin unresponsive and made pidgin crash or i maybe pressed 2x close and then Yes to close it and then poped up this crash report.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: pidgin 1:2.6.6-1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Wed Jun 2 21:11:18 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcCmdline: pidgin
ProcCwd: /home/kng
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x677189 <g_type_check_instance_cast+41>: mov (%eax),%eax
 PC (0x00677189) ok
 source "(%eax)" (0x00000002) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%eax" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: pidgin
StacktraceTop:
 g_type_check_instance_cast ()
 ?? ()
 ?? () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: pidgin crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_cast()
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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StacktraceTop:
 g_type_check_instance_cast ()
 ensure_plugin_visible (data=0x8d42160)
 ?? () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

However, processing it in order to get sufficient information for the developers failed (it does not generate an useful symbolic stack trace). This might be caused by some outdated packages which were installed on your system at the time of the report. Please upgrade your system to the latest package versions. If you still encounter the crash, please file a new report.

Thank you for your understanding, and sorry for the inconvenience!