Segmentation fault

[Stefan Handschuh]

Linux 2.6.24-21-generic #1 SMP Mon Aug 25 16:57:51 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

When I try to send a message, it gives me a segmentation fault.

How can I provide detailed information about this bug?

[Stefan Handschuh (handschuh)]

Got some details:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x7fbd17b987a0 (LWP 18563)]
0x00007fbd144e4980 in strchr () from /lib/libc.so.6

[Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek (liviopl-pl)]

I noticed that too but it's very random, doesn't happen often, so I didn't got any trace.

Stefan, please try to trigger this crash again, but running pidgin under gdb (remember to have debug packaged for pidgin installed).

[Stefan Handschuh (handschuh)]

This is all I get (installed debug-package for pidgin) [this occures all the time]:

gdb pidgin
GNU gdb 6.8-debian
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu"...
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/pidgin
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0x7f023a82a7a0 (LWP 8671)]
warning: Lowest section in /usr/lib/libicudata.so.38 is .hash at 0000000000000120

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x7f023a82a7a0 (LWP 8671)]
0x00007f0237176980 in strchr () from /lib/libc.so.6

[Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek (liviopl-pl)]

seems a webkit-related crash.

give us the versions of:

* webkit
* pidgin
* libpurple

[Simo Mattila (simom)]

Could you try if this is now fixed in trunk?

[Stefan Handschuh (handschuh)]

Thanks Jakub, thanks Simo.

In fact, Simo's patch worked very well! I had no further problems since taking revision 65.

Just great.

[meskarune (meskarune)]

I am running 64 bit arch linux. New install, everything up to date. When I enable the pidgin-webkit plugin, and then open a message window, the program crashes with a segmentation fault.