[hardy] pidgin crashed with signal 5 in purple_url_encode()

[Joachim Beckers]

Binary package hint: pidgin

I'm getting this error when I start pidgin and try to add an account.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Thu Jan 31 12:36:18 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
NonfreeKernelModules: vmnet vmblock vmmon
Package: pidgin 1:2.3.1-2ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdline: pidgin
ProcCwd: /home/joachim
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=C
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: pidgin
StacktraceTop:
 purple_url_encode () from /usr/lib/libpurple.so.0
 msn_user_set_friendly_name ()
 msn_user_new () from /usr/lib/purple-2/libmsn.so
 msn_session_new () from /usr/lib/purple-2/libmsn.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/purple-2/libmsn.so
Title: pidgin crashed with signal 5 in purple_url_encode()
Uname: Linux Mackeunnen 2.6.24-5-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 24 19:29:14 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev scanner video

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:purple_url_encode (str=0x0) at ../../libpurple/util.c:4044
msn_user_set_friendly_name (user=0xca41e0, name=0x0)
msn_user_new (userlist=0xc4ac40, passport=0xcd4ce0 "<email address hidden>",
msn_session_new (account=0xce75a0) at ../../../../libpurple/protocols/msnp9/session.c:43
msn_login (account=0xce75a0) at ../../../../libpurple/protocols/msnp9/msn.c:744

[Joachim Beckers (jbeckers)]

this is unrelated to the adding of an account, so it seems. when restarting pidgin, the account I added is still there. the problem occurs when I log in though.

see the attached log, now with pidgin-dbg installed.

[Joachim Beckers (jbeckers)]

also, this only happens with my msn account. google talk works perfectly.

[Allan Willems Joergensen (allan)]

I get this also.

[geefour (marcfinnwilson)]

Yeah, me too although, my laptop is of the i386 architecture (Pentium M)

[Tim Caswell (tim-creationix)]

I get the same problem on my machine. I have an Intel T2060 1.6GHz Dual Core. My pidgin won't boot at all. I have a MSN account, a GTalk account and an AIM account. If I wipe my profile it comes up. I can add my Google Talk and AIM accounts back in and it still works fine. But when I add my MSN account it crashes.

[Ka-Hing Cheung (kahing)]

Is this for the official ubuntu pidgin binary? is G_DEBUG set somehow?

[Joachim Beckers (jbeckers)]

yes it is.

workaround from bug 187755 (now a dupe):

in a terminal, run:
$ unset G_DEBUG
$ pidgin

[Ing0R (ing0r)]

Finch crashes the same way.

[Ka-Hing Cheung (kahing)]

What is setting G_DEBUG?

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

Thank you for this bug report. Has anyone experienced this issue with an up-to-date system?

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

due to no response, marking as invalid