pidgin freezes suddenly, restart doesn't help, computer must restart completely
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pidgin (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: pidgin
Somtimes pidgin has suddenly a complete freez. The pidgin window will went dark and it doesn't work anymore.
After killing the process and restarting pidgin, only a gray window will appear.
Instead of the pidgin icon, there will be a double sized free space in the notification area.
When I start pidgin with --debug, this are the latest entry's:
[....]
(14:07:43) oscar: Adding handler for 0001/000a
(14:07:43) oscar: Adding handler for 0001/0005
(14:07:43) oscar: Adding handler for 0001/0013
(14:07:43) oscar: Adding handler for 0001/0010
(14:07:43) oscar: Adding handler for 0008/0002
(14:07:43) oscar: Adding handler for 000a/0001
(14:07:43) oscar: Adding handler for 000a/0003
(14:07:43) oscar: oscar_login: gc = 0x86f53d0
(14:07:43) dns: DNS query for 'login.
(14:07:43) util: requested to fetch (http://
(14:07:43) dns: DNS query for '192.168.1.254' queued
and then it does nothing until I press ctrl-C. 192.168.1.254 is my internet-gateway.
I'm using latest ubuntu hardy with all updates, that mean pidgin in version 2.4.1-1ubuntu2.
After I restart the computer, it's working again.
The problem became more and more annoying. In the meantime I figured out that it must be a problem between pidgin and orbit. kev.knet. eu/bugs/ launchpad- 227714/ pidgin- freez.png kev.knet. eu/bugs/ launchpad- 227714/ pidgin- freez-strace. png kevin/linc- 1b73-0- 41a1e7cac072a" ,
I took two screen shots.
The first one shows pidgin in the "suddenly freez" state: http://
For the second one, I killed the pidgin process and started pidgin again, I did this with strace to see what's the last thingt pidgin is doing before the freeze.
Above the red line you see some kind of causation, an orbit file, I don't know what it is for: http://
After I kill pidgin again and delete this file pidgin will work again until some time, than it freeze again, I have to start it with strace then to delete this file and then I can use pidgin again for some time...and so on.
The file is always another hex number this time it was: "/tmp/orbit-
I hope this may help for debugging. If you need more information, please ask, I really wan't to help debugging, because I like pidgin and want to use it in a normal way...
Thanks a lot.