pidgin crashes on startup: Attempt to unlock mutex that was not locked

[Alan Robertson]

I start it up. It crashes. I just upgraded from 14.04, and since then Pidgin is broken in this way.

I've attached the output of pidgin -d

I have IRC, and Skype and facebook and google hangout accounts enabled.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: pidgin 1:2.10.9-0ubuntu7.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-24.32-generic 3.16.4
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Wed Nov 5 08:32:36 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-07-12 (115 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140416.1)
SourcePackage: pidgin
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-11-05 (0 days ago)

[Alan Robertson (alanr-unix)]

finch crashes the same way

[Alan Robertson (alanr-unix)]

The Pidgin ticket https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/16467 indicates that this is a pidgin-skype bug which has been fixed. Please just package up the latest SVN version.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Francesco Ponzin (francesco-ponzin)]

I worked it arounb by installing Vivid version of pidgin-skype and pidgin-skype-common.

I found the two .deb here:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/vivid/amd64/pidgin-skype/20140930+svn665+dfsg-1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/vivid/amd64/pidgin-skype-common/20140930+svn665+dfsg-1

[Alan Robertson (alanr-unix)]

Alberto Salvia Novella: Thanks for the change in priority. Crashing is kinda important, and it shouldn't be too hard to get fixed...

[Patrick ZAJDA (nardol)]

Should this bug considered as fixed?

[Alan Robertson (alanr-unix)]

It's been 10 years. I gave up on Pidgin. Might as well close it :-).

  -- Alan

On Mon, Feb 12, 2024, at 08:21, Patrick ZAJDA wrote:
> Should this bug considered as fixed?
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1389757
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> Title:
> pidgin crashes on startup: Attempt to unlock mutex that was not locked
>
> Status in Pidgin:
> Unknown
> Status in pidgin-skype package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> I start it up. It crashes. I just upgraded from 14.04, and since
> then Pidgin is broken in this way.
>
> I've attached the output of pidgin -d
>
> I have IRC, and Skype and facebook and google hangout accounts
> enabled.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
> Package: pidgin 1:2.10.9-0ubuntu7.1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-24.32-generic 3.16.4
> Uname: Linux 3.16.0-24-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
> Architecture: amd64
> CurrentDesktop: KDE
> Date: Wed Nov 5 08:32:36 2014
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-07-12 (115 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64
> (20140416.1)
> SourcePackage: pidgin
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-11-05 (0 days ago)
>
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  Alan Robertson
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