pidgin crashes in libmeanwhile just after connecting

[Martin Schwenke]

Something seems to have changed on a Sametime server I use, causing pidgin to die in libmeanwhile just after establishing a connection.

I see the problem in libmeanwhile1-1.0.2-3 in Ubunutu 8.04 (Hardy).

Attached is a patch that fixes (or works around) the problem by avoiding a NULL-pointer dereference.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=468893 suggests other changes are required

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

I forwarded the patch for fixing the crash upstream.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Let's wait for a decision upstream (either Debian or meanwhile upstream).

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[Benjamin Herrenschmidt (benh-kernel)]

The presence fix patch should be applied asap though.

[Sean Dague (sdague)]

I'm currently being bitten by the lack of this presence patch in intrepid. Please apply and release ASAP.

[Martin Schwenke (martin-meltin)]

I have hardy and intrepid packages in my PPA. I've been testing the hardy one since yesterday with no problems, others are testing the intrepid package.

Details at:

  https://launchpad.net/~martin-meltin/+archive

[David Zanetti (dave2-wetstring)]

Any chance we'll see the presence patches applied to Intrepid?

[Ryan Harper (raharper)]

Need the presence patch for jaunty amd64.

[Martin Schwenke (martin-meltin)]

The Hardy and Intrepid packages in my PPA mentioned in comment 9 have now been tested for nearly 6 months with no adverse effects... sorry, I guess I should have mentioned that earlier.

[Martin Schwenke (martin-meltin)]

I've submitted a PPA build for the patched meanwhile for Jaunty. The x86_64 version is built but the i386 version is still sitting in the queue waiting to be built.

I haven't had time to upgrade to Jaunty yet, so when these are built can someone please test them? I'll remove them if they're broken...

Details at:

  https://launchpad.net/~martin-meltin/+archive/ppa

Thanks...

[Ryan Harper (raharper)]

Tested the jaunty amd64 PPA package , fixed my presence issues.

[Daggerga (daggerga)]

I'm experiencing this same issue in Windows using libmeanwhile-1.dll and Pidgin 2.5.5.....any fix available?

[Martin Schwenke (martin-meltin)]

I doubt that most people here have a Windows machine! This bug has been reported against the Ubuntu Linux distribution.

2 options:

* Pull the relevant parts out of this patch:

    http://ppa.launchpad.net/martin-meltin/ppa/ubuntu/pool/main/m/meanwhile/meanwhile_1.0.2-4~ppa4.jaunty.diff.gz

  (or grab the patches from elsewhere) and compile a new version yourself.

* Search in Windows-specific forums to see if anyone else has built a patched version.

Good luck! :-)

[Ryan Harper (raharper)]

Need this presence patch for karmic amd64 -- I figured it would have gone upstream already...

[Martin Schwenke (martin-meltin)]

We've had a working patch since Hardy. Is there a chance that someone could pick it up so that we could have a working version in Lucid... or the next release?

[Nigel Babu (nigelbabu)]

Thank for you the patch and forwarding upstream.

[Ryan Harper (raharper)]

Maverick 10.10 64bit still doesn't have presence fix. I applied presence_v2 patch from

http://www.lilotux.net/~mikael/pub/meanwhile/

and that resolves the issue.