I attempted to use gaim2 beta6, but every time I re-launch it, it complains about blist.xml being corrupted. Then it re-creates it, and at the next launch this happens again. Since this looses any groupings of contacts etc, it make the application unusable. I _suspect_ the fault to be of character encoding (as I have seen that groups and nicks with accents are handled badly) but I cannot be sure. The error message is about as uninformative as it could possibly be. I also tried deleting former .gaim folder completely and letting the app recreate it, with no effect. Reproducible: Always
emerge --info please can you also give which version of libxml2 you have
$ emerge --info Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.18-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r6 i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2500 @ 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6 Last Sync: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 11:50:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r6 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirror.solnet.ch http://gentoo.intergenia.de ftp://ftp.solnet.ch/mirror/Gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acl acpi alsa alsa_cards_ali5451 alsa_cards_als4000 alsa_cards_atiixp alsa_cards_atiixp-modem alsa_cards_bt87x alsa_cards_ca0106 alsa_cards_cmipci alsa_cards_emu10k1x alsa_cards_ens1370 alsa_cards_ens1371 alsa_cards_es1938 alsa_cards_es1968 alsa_cards_fm801 alsa_cards_hda-intel alsa_cards_intel8x0 alsa_cards_intel8x0m alsa_cards_maestro3 alsa_cards_trident alsa_cards_usb-audio alsa_cards_via82xx alsa_cards_via82xx-modem alsa_cards_ymfpci alsa_pcm_plugins_adpcm alsa_pcm_plugins_alaw alsa_pcm_plugins_asym alsa_pcm_plugins_copy alsa_pcm_plugins_dmix alsa_pcm_plugins_dshare alsa_pcm_plugins_dsnoop alsa_pcm_plugins_empty alsa_pcm_plugins_extplug alsa_pcm_plugins_file alsa_pcm_plugins_hooks alsa_pcm_plugins_iec958 alsa_pcm_plugins_ioplug alsa_pcm_plugins_ladspa alsa_pcm_plugins_lfloat alsa_pcm_plugins_linear alsa_pcm_plugins_meter alsa_pcm_plugins_mulaw alsa_pcm_plugins_multi alsa_pcm_plugins_null alsa_pcm_plugins_plug alsa_pcm_plugins_rate alsa_pcm_plugins_route alsa_pcm_plugins_share alsa_pcm_plugins_shm alsa_pcm_plugins_softvol amuled aqua_theme arts async atlas avantgo bash-completion berkdb bindist bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cardbus cdparanoia cli cpudetection cracklib crypt css cups curlwrappers devfs26 devmap dga dhcp dio directfb djbfft dlloader dri dvb dvd elibc_glibc fat fbcon fbsplash fftw foomaticdb fortran fpx ftp gdbm gif gnutls gphoto2 gpm gs gssapi gtk gzip hpn i8x0 iconv icq idea imagemagick imap input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_synaptics ipv6 irda isdnlog jabber java javascript jikes john jpeg jpeg2k kde kdepim kernel_linux lapack lcd_devices_bayrad lcd_devices_cfontz lcd_devices_cfontz633 lcd_devices_glk lcd_devices_hd44780 lcd_devices_lb216 lcd_devices_lcdm001 lcd_devices_mtxorb lcd_devices_ncurses lcd_devices_text lesstif libg++ mbox messages midi mime mmap mmx mmxext mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg mplayer msn mysqli ncurses nls nocd nomalloccheck nptl nptlonly ntfs ntlm nvidia octave ogg opengl oscar pam pcapnav pcmcia pcntl pcre pda perl png pnp posix ppds pppd python qt4 radius rdesktop readline real reflection samba sasl scanner session sharedmem silc slp sms sockets sox spell spl sse sse2 ssl svga sysfs sysvipc tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU userlocales v4l v4l2 vcd video_cards_nvidia vorbis wifi win32codecs winbind xchattext xcomposite xine xml xmlrpc xorg xvid yahoo zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY $ emerge -pv libxml2 These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.27 USE="ipv6 python readline -debug -doc -test" 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB
btw, is the file actually corrupted?
no - gaim 1.5.0 loads it perfectly.
can you try net-im/pidgin and see if it works better ?
