Comment 0 for bug 445369

Binary package hint: pidgin

This is a nasty bug. I'll try to do my best to describe it.
When "Hide new IM conversations" is set to Always (as it should be to fully use Ubuntu notification system) i experience random crashes while closing a chat dialog opened via the indicator applet. I have to double hit the close button in order to close this dialog because the first time the dialog is cleaned of all its GTK widgets and the second time is closed and Pidgin crashes.
I also noted that sometimes more than one chat dialog is opened (a normal one and another one with this behavior) so not all chats are tabbed inside the same chat window. This bug never shows up if the chat dialog (with another person) is alredy open when receiving a message that starts a new conversation.

I think this bug is related with how pidgin and libnotify-pidgin operate together.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 7 13:24:18 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
Package: pidgin 1:2.6.2-1ubuntu6
ProcCmdline: pidgin
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-12.39-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x78add2 <g_file_set_contents+1250>: (bad)
 PC (0x0078add2) ok
 Reason could not be automatically determined.
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: pidgin
StacktraceTop:
 g_file_set_contents () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 pidgin_conv_window_add_gtkconv ()
 ?? ()
 purple_conversation_new () from /usr/lib/libpurple.so.0
 ?? ()
Title: pidgin crashed with SIGSEGV in g_file_set_contents()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare tape