Bug 144990 – Gaim segfaults when starting

• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Benjamin Bach 2006-08-24 10:37:00 UTC]

Whenever I start Gaim, it segfaults. At first I was using Gaim 2 beta 3, then I switched back to 1.5 which also segfaulted and now I'm back at Gaim 2. Removing the tray-icon plugin from prefs.xml or some other plugin has made it possible for me to start Gaim, but then later my X-server spontaneously crashes and when I boot back up, Gaim again segfaults. I have no other issues with my installation, so I'm pretty sure this is a GTK/Gaim/Xorg 7.0 issue.

Here's the output from a backtrace i GDB:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1218324816 (LWP 18633)]
0x0810f906 in gtk_gaim_status_box_new_with_account ()
(gdb) bt full
#0 0x0810f906 in gtk_gaim_status_box_new_with_account ()
No symbol table info available.
#1 0x080c6910 in gaim_gtk_cell_renderer_progress_new ()
No symbol table info available.
#2 0xb6c500b3 in jabber_stream_set_state () from
/usr/lib/gaim/libjabber.so
No symbol table info available.
#3 0xb6c504d1 in jabber_stream_set_state () from
/usr/lib/gaim/libjabber.so
No symbol table info available.
#4 0x080942c7 in gaim_gethostbyname_async ()
No symbol table info available.
#5 0x080dd106 in dnd_hints_show_relative ()
No symbol table info available.
#6 0xb77e0507 in g_vasprintf () from
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#7 0xb77b1ecb in g_source_remove_poll () from
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#8 0xb77b4550 in g_main_context_acquire () from
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#9 0xb77b48c1 in g_main_loop_run () from
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#10 0xb7d5a1b9 in gtk_main () from
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#11 0x080f14bf in main ()

Should I compile Gaim with the -debug flag? Whatever you need to track it down, I'm here at my laptop awaiting instructions =)

/ Benjamin

[Comment 1 Christophe PEREZ 2006-08-28 11:10:58 UTC]

I had a similar problem today with gaim 1.5, and removing all the profile (~/.gaim) solved it. Don't know if it can help.

[Comment 2 Kathryn Kulick (RETIRED) 2006-10-13 08:27:00 UTC]

Okay, yes please compile gaim with the debug use flag and re-post the gdb output again if it is still an issue.