Gaim crashed when I connect to MSN (only)

[Anders]

I can connect Gaim to irc, AIM etc without any problem; however when I connect to (manually and/or 'autologin' to MSN, the application systematically crashed.

Obtained a backtrace as suggested at:
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/gdb.php

and it looks like this:

---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1219696096 (LWP 5428)]
0xb6a19fb1 in msn_object_new_from_string () from /usr/lib/gaim/libmsn.so
(gdb) bt full
#0 0xb6a19fb1 in msn_object_new_from_string () from /usr/lib/gaim/libmsn.so
No symbol table info available.
#1 0xb6a1c4a4 in msn_slp_sip_recv () from /usr/lib/gaim/libmsn.so
No symbol table info available.
#2 0xb6a1d012 in msn_slp_process_msg () from /usr/lib/gaim/libmsn.so
No symbol table info available.
#3 0xb6a1db73 in msn_slplink_process_msg () from /usr/lib/gaim/libmsn.so
No symbol table info available.
#4 0xb6a1bbf0 in msn_p2p_msg () from /usr/lib/gaim/libmsn.so
No symbol table info available.
#5 0xb6a0ddaf in msn_cmdproc_process_msg () from /usr/lib/gaim/libmsn.so
No symbol table info available.
#6 0xb6a1f4e1 in msn_switchboard_send_msg () from /usr/lib/gaim/libmsn.so
No symbol table info available.
#7 0xb6a0dd38 in msn_cmdproc_process_payload () from /usr/lib/gaim/libmsn.so
No symbol table info available.
#8 0xb6a1ac54 in msn_servconn_write () from /usr/lib/gaim/libmsn.so
No symbol table info available.
#9 0x080c7d46 in gaim_gtkdialogs_remove_chat ()
No symbol table info available.
#10 0xb783752c in g_vasprintf () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#11 0xb78108d6 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
No symbol table info available.
#12 0xb7813996 in g_main_context_check () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#13 0xb7813cb8 in g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#14 0xb7c68765 in gtk_main () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#15 0x080f4247 in main ()
No symbol table info available.
(gdb)

This bug seems vaguely related to unsolved bug 54459:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gaim/+bug/54459

[Anders (andersja+launchpad-net)]

Sorry additional information (I notice this is labelled as 'uploaded to Ubuntu Edgy'). I run Dapper Drake.

[Simon Law (sfllaw)]

It actually is the same bug. Thank you for reporting this issue.

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