blist.xml was corrupted during normal shutdown - "buddy" tag "account" attribute contains invalid XML chars
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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pidgin (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: pidgin
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
Pidgin 2.5.2
App started and reported blist.xml was corrupt and was moved to blist.xml~, all IRC channels were lost from the new blist.xml configuration file.
Running xmllint on the corrupted blist.xml file returns the following 3 errors on line 114:
/home/ged/
<buddy account=
/home/ged/
<buddy account=
/home/ged/
<buddy account=
The rest of the file appears to be fine, with all other instances of the account tag correctly showing my gtalk login id for prpl-jabber protocol entries.
I don't know how to reproduce this, the last run prior to it happening was ended when I did a normal system shutdown using the "Shut Down..." Gnome panel icon.
Let me know if there's any other info I can provide.
-G
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: pidgin 1:2.5.2-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic x86_64
I can confirm this bug with ubuntu 9.10 and pidgin 2.6.6. My accounts.xml looks exactly the same but blist.xml is also affected.