xchat-gnome plugin (re)unloading not functioning

[Chris Kühl]

When making a plugin active and inactive a couple times in xchat-gnome, I'm presented with the following error.

An error occured unloading /usr/lib/xchat-gnome/plugins/perl.so

This happens with all the plugins. It seems that after unloading a plugin the following loading attempt is not successful and an additional unloading attempt is not able to unload a plugin that was not loaded, resulting in the above error dialog text.

To recreate:

Open xchat-gnome's preference window and click activate and deactivate a plugin a couple times.

[Guillaume Desmottes (cassidy)]

I can reproduce this bug.

[nuttygamergeek (nuttygamergeek+launchpad)]

This is making my xchat-gnome experience rather painful. I first wrote a simple script in Python and got that to work, then I had the weird problems above when unloading the scripts.

I decided to change to writing the plugin in C, compiled it, loaded it, enabled it all no problem. However whenever I go back into the preferences the plugin disapears, if I reload it it won't enable again. If I click a few times the error above pops up.

For me this is a show stopper not "low importance" as I can't write a plugin for xchat-gnome :(.