After updating to gaim-0.76, I'm able to cause gaim to segfault Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge =net-im/gaim-0.76 2. On the buddy list window, go to Tools -> Preferences (I'm logged into AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, and IRC if that makes a difference) Actual Results: Gaim segfaults Expected Results: Gaim should open up the preferences dialog Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x080e730b in gaim_gtk_prefs_init () (gdb) bt #0 0x080e730b in gaim_gtk_prefs_init () #1 0x080e4771 in prefs_notebook_init () #2 0x080e4f5a in gaim_gtk_prefs_show () #3 0x457f86a5 in gtk_item_factory_new () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0, 2.6.4-gentoo-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.4-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.26GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13p1 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -funroll-loops" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/tomcat /opt/resin/conf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -funroll-loops" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://128.213.5.34/gentoo/ http://gentoo.noved.org/ ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com ftp://ftp.uesb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="4dnow X aalib accessibility acl acpi adns aim alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups curl dga directfb doc dvb dvd encode esd evo faad fam fbcon fftw firebird flac flash foomaticdb freetds gb gd gdbm ggi gif ginac glut gmp gnome gnomedb gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile icq imagemagick imap imlib informix innodb jabber jack java jikes joystick jpeg kde ladcca lcms ldap libg++ libgda libwww lirc mad mcal mikmod mmx motif mozcalendar mozilla mozp3p mozsvg mozxmlterm mpeg msn mysql nas ncurses netcdf nls nvidia oggvorbis opengl optional-tasks oscar oss pam pdflib perl plotutils png pnp postgres prelude python qt quicktime readline regexp rhino ruby samba sasl scanner sdl slang slp spell sqlite sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff transcode truetype unicode usb vhosts videos wmf wxwindows x86 xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid yahoo yaz zeo zlib"
You might try backing up ~/.gaim/prefs.xml to something and then starting gaim to create a new prefs file. Might be something in the old.
Thanks, that fixed it
