Pidgin backport segfault in libc.so
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Hardy Backports |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Pidgin |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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pidgin (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I just installed the latest Pidgin backport using Synatpic, and it segfaults in strcmp() in the C library. Please send me to the correct place to report this, if it isn't here :)
Here's the gdb trace:
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0xb7003720 (LWP 25512)]
0xb75efd28 in strcmp () from /lib/tls/
(gdb) bt
#0 0xb75efd28 in strcmp () from /lib/tls/
#1 0xb64ab7d8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/
#2 0xb786ba5e in purple_
#3 0xb786df0f in ?? () from /usr/lib/
#4 0xb786e4b2 in ?? () from /usr/lib/
#5 0xb786b6f6 in purple_
#6 0xb64aad78 in ?? () from /usr/lib/
#7 0x080ad7f7 in ?? ()
#8 0xb77770ed in ?? () from /usr/lib/
#9 0xb7742dd6 in g_main_
#10 0xb7746193 in ?? () from /usr/lib/
#11 0xb7746577 in g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib/
#12 0xb7c43264 in gtk_main () from /usr/lib/
#13 0x080ca79a in main ()
If it helps, at the same time I installed the following other things (this is a synaptic log of my session):
Upgraded the following packages:
apturl (0.2.2ubuntu1) to 0.2.6ubuntu1~hardy1
language-pack-en (1:8.04+20080708) to 1:8.04+20080805
language-
libpurple0 (1:2.4.
libsmbclient (3.0.28a-
libsvn1 (1.4.6dfsg1-
pidgin (1:2.4.
pidgin-data (1:2.4.
samba-common (3.0.28a-
smbclient (3.0.28a-
smbfs (3.0.28a-
subversion (1.4.6dfsg1-
subversion-tools (1.4.6dfsg1-
Installed the following packages:
libneon27-gnutls (0.27.2-1)
Related branches
Changed in pidgin: | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
Changed in hardy-backports: | |
status: | New → Invalid |
Changed in pidgin: | |
assignee: | nobody → laney |
status: | New → In Progress |
Hello again -- I reported the bug to the Pidgin developers. Their Trac ticket on it can be found at http:// developer. pidgin. im/ticket/ 7013. They've accepted and fixed it (the diff is at http:// developer. pidgin. im/viewmtn/ revision/ diff/254e5a2403 1a74103097db812 ae3e723d696c11d /with/3cbc74478 c8df61d53804d03 63dc936a3e0adeb 7).
I'm not sure how many people this bug affects that are using Hardy backports, but if SSL certs make Pidgin as unstable for everyone as it was for me, I'd suggest removing the package until the fixed version can be backported. I'd imagine this probably does affect most users since everything seems to use SSL and libnss except AIM and Yahoo. IRC and Jabber both cause Pidgin to crash.