Bug 176759 – x11-plugins/guifications-2.13_beta7 config screen crashes X

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Randall Wald 2007-05-02 04:24:39 UTC]

I emerged net-im/pidgin and then x11-plugins/guifications-2.13_beta7; both builds finished successfully. However, guifications does not seem to work. I check the plugins list; guifications is there and checked. I click "configure plugin;" a window starts to pop up, but then X crashes and I'm dumped back to a terminal. I tried deleting .gaim/guifications/; it didn't help. Any ideas? Here's my emerge --info, if it'll help.

Portage 2.1.2.2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.19-suspend2-r2 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.19-suspend2-r2 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor         1.40GHz
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 02 May 2007 00:20:01 +0000
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31-r5
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r3, 2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
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: 1.3.15-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4"
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/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://toughguy.caltech.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ ftp://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ http://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LINGUAS="en ja"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
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 --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aalib acpi aim alsa arts berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr cjk cli cracklib crypt cups dbus directfb dri dvd eds emboss encode esd exif fam firefox fortran gdbm gif glitz gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv icq immqt ipv6 isdnlog jabber java jpeg ldap libg++ mad matroska matrox midi mikmod mp3 mpeg msn ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl oscar oss pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline real reflection samba sdl session spell spl ssl svg tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis wifi win32codecs x86 xml xorg xv xvid yahoo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="kbd keyboard mouse synaptics evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en ja" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 i915 vesa fbdev"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Randall Wald 2007-05-02 06:21:57 UTC]

Someone pointed out that Pidgin keeps its config stuff in ~/.purple, so I also wiped ~/.purple/guifications* ; that didn't help either. Just in case someone wanted to suggest that.

[Comment 2 Olivier Crete (RETIRED) 2007-05-02 14:56:42 UTC]

This is completely crazy if it crashes X. Which X driver are you using ?

[Comment 3 Randall Wald 2007-05-03 00:05:42 UTC]

I think i810? According to lspci, I have the following video card:
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
In the Device section of xorg.conf, I definitely have Driver "i810".

[Comment 4 Randall Wald 2007-05-04 22:22:08 UTC]

Not sure why, but after I emerged pidgin 2.0.0 and then recompiled guifications, everything started working again. I don't know what was happening, but whatever it was, it's been fixed.