Pidgin 2.5.5 crashes with Yahoo buddies on MSN

[Sean McNamara]

Upstream is already aware of a bug where users who have invalid, "federated" Yahoo! contacts on their MSN buddy list will experience a crash upon launch of Pidgin 2.5.5. As this is a somewhat common situation, we should track upstream's progress and bring in a fix before the final release of Jaunty.

Example Trigger: You add a Yahoo! contact to your MSN buddy list, and that user someday cancels their Yahoo! account.

Result: Pidgin crashes on startup if you have your MSN Account enabled.

There is a "hotfix" described in the upstream bug report; namely, to check some pointers for NULL (see the bottom of the bug report). You will still see error message popups from Pidgin saying, "Friendly name changes too rapidly".

If this bug is not addressed at all before we're too far along in the Jaunty release schedule to pull in upstream fixes, we should implement the (extremely trivial) hotfix in libpurple/protocols/msn/notification.c:941:

-if (cmd->trans->data)
+if (cmd && cmd->trans && cmd->trans->data)

Otherwise we will have a crasher in Pidgin going into release, which is bad.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the upsream bug has been fixed now

[Michael (mjthomas)]

I wonder if this is the same issue as I have with pidgin crashing whenever I try to add buddies on yahoo?