jsled@phoenix [~]$ gdb pidgin GNU gdb 6.8 Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"... (no debugging symbols found) (gdb) run Starting program: /data/usr/bin/pidgin (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 0x7f60aee1d740 (LWP 15551)] Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0". [New Thread 0x41b55950 (LWP 15630)] [New Thread 0x42362950 (LWP 15633)] [Thread 0x42362950 (LWP 15633) exited] [Thread 0x41b55950 (LWP 15630) exited] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 0x7f60aee1d740 (LWP 15551)] 0x00007f60ab6501d3 in pango_layout_set_text () from /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 (gdb) thread apply all bt full Thread 1 (Thread 0x7f60aee1d740 (LWP 15551)): #0 0x00007f60ab6501d3 in pango_layout_set_text () from /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 No symbol table info available. #1 0x00007f60ab652edb in pango_layout_set_markup_with_accel () from /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 No symbol table info available. #2 0x000000000043d9c9 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #3 0x000000000043fd48 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #4 0x00000000004402db in ?? () No symbol table info available. #5 0x00000000004abdbe in pidgin_tooltip_show () No symbol table info available. #6 0x0000000000454c6a in ?? () No symbol table info available. #7 0x00000000004aba4e in ?? () No symbol table info available. #8 0x00007f60aaa7573b in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 No symbol table info available. #9 0x00007f60aaa74fd1 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 No symbol table info available. #10 0x00007f60aaa786ad in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 No symbol table info available. #11 0x00007f60aaa78bdd in g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 No symbol table info available. #12 0x00007f60ac99b5e7 in gtk_main () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 No symbol table info available. #13 0x000000000047c233 in main () No symbol table info available. Both pidgin and pango were rebuild a couple of weeks ago, but I've only noticed these crashes in the last couple of days. sled@phoenix [~]$ eix -Ir '^(pidgin|pango)$' [I] net-im/pidgin Available versions: 2.5.5 ~2.5.5-r1 2.5.6 {bonjour dbus debug doc eds gadu gnutls groupwise gstreamer gtk meanwhile ncurses networkmanager nls perl prediction qq sasl silc spell tcl tk zephyr} Installed versions: 2.5.6(07:46:42 PM 05/28/2009)(dbus doc gstreamer gtk ncurses nls perl spell -bonjour -debug -eds -gadu -gnutls -groupwise -meanwhile -networkmanager -prediction -qq -sasl -silc -tcl -tk -zephyr) Homepage: http://pidgin.im/ Description: GTK Instant Messenger client [I] x11-libs/pango Available versions: 1.22.4 ~1.22.4-r1 ~1.24.1 1.24.2 {X debug doc} Installed versions: 1.24.2(07:29:22 PM 05/28/2009)(X doc -debug) Homepage: http://www.pango.org/ Description: Text rendering and layout library jsled@phoenix [~]$ emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.28-gentoo-r5 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.28-gentoo-r5-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_4400+-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:45:02 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -ggdb" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -ggdb" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/ " LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/dev/shm" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/mozilla /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X a52 aac aalib acl alsa amd64 apache2 audiofile avahi bash-completion berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cscope cups curl daap dbus dga dlna doc dri dvd dvdr emacs encode ethereal exif faad fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gd gdbm glut gmp gnome gnome-keyring gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal iconv icq idn imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog jabber java java5 joystick jpeg jpeg2k junit lcms libnotify mad maildir mbox midi ming mmx mng mp3 mpeg msn mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl openmp oscar pam pcre perl plotutil png powermate pppd python quicktime readline reflection ruby samba sdl session slang speex spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd theora threads truetype udev unicode usb vorbis xinerama xml xml2 xorg xosd xvid yahoo zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="canon" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia fbdev vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Can you try with 2.5.9 or 2.6.1 ?
Also with pango-2.14.5 or newer the crash _might_ get downgraded to a critical warning (2.14.2 and 2.14.3 had a packaging problem and disabled some safeguards in pango). Though if this does downgrade the crash to a warning, such a critical warning should still get fixed. pango-2.14.5-r1 will be stabilized very soon now, so might not need to get an ~arch even for that :)
No answer for a long time. Closing.
