Lastnight I have upgraded pidgin, and I noticed different segmentation faults with incomming messages. I see it states that its core is dumped (where?). Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce:
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 0xb65146e0 (LWP 24281)] 0xb72f011b in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0xb72f011b in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0xb72c156c in vfprintf () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0xb72e264c in vasprintf () from /lib/libc.so.6 #3 0xb75b5ff2 in g_vasprintf () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #4 0x0861cb88 in ?? () #5 0x086fe020 in ?? () #6 0xbfa35f88 in ?? () #7 0xb75a50ce in g_string_append_vprintf () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #8 0xb76f5c82 in purple_conversation_get_type (conv=0xb7fa6120) at conversation.c:565
(gdb) bt #0 0xb7fb4410 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0xb7410533 in __write_nocancel () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 #2 0xb60fbbfc in do_send (irc=0x84c15e8, buf=0x10 <Address 0x10 out of bounds>, len=140729320) at irc.c:95 #3 0xb60fd248 in irc_send (irc=0x84c15e8, buf=0x8556b18 "QUIT :Leaving.\r\n") at irc.c:157 #4 0xb60ffcaa in irc_cmd_quit (irc=0x84c15e8, cmd=0xb6104fe6 "quit", target=0x0, args=0x0) at cmds.c:397 #5 0xb60fc313 in irc_close (gc=0x84c1558) at irc.c:471 #6 0xb7715d83 in purple_connection_destroy (gc=0x84c1558) at connection.c:263 #7 0xb7701a22 in purple_account_disconnect (account=0x81799f0) at account.c:1174 #8 0xb771585f in purple_connection_disconnect_cb (data=0x81799f0) at connection.c:487 #9 0xb75a7d7f in g_timeout_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #10 0x00000001 in ?? () #11 0x005a63e6 in ?? () #12 0x00000001 in ?? () #13 0x00000000 in ?? ()
This seems like an upstream bug, please file it there
(In reply to comment #3) > This seems like an upstream bug, please file it there I thought the big message always present in the ebuild is to make Gentoo devs file gaim/pidgin bugs upstream. ewarn "If you experience problems with pidgin, file them as bugs with" ewarn "Gentoo's bugzilla, http://bugs.gentoo.org"
no, the message is to file it here first... so we can filter bad ones.. Yours clearly seems like an upstream bug (btw, normall you should add your emerge --info here too)
(In reply to comment #5) > no, the message is to file it here first... so we can filter bad ones.. Yours > clearly seems like an upstream bug Upstream tracker sucks... http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/6187 ...and these problems were introduced with 2.4.1 -> 2.4.2. But some other stupid things were introduced with the new pidgin releases, so it is finally time to choose another gtkbased IM client. > (btw, normall you should add your emerge > --info here too) I'm not a user of emerge ;) And really don't see the requirement for emerge --info in relationship to segmentation faults. Now I agree that a bad compiler can cause all this...
emerge --info (or equivalent) is mostly to see if you've put non-kosher cflags or something else thats strange... or to be able to reproduce the problem (ie know which use flags you have set)
