Bug 110698 – net-im/gaim-1.5.0 crashes when sending msg on all protocols

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Leo 2005-10-28 05:48:25 UTC]

Hi all...
since last days I cannot use gaim anymore... :-(
all message I try to send crash the app and ends with the following error
===
 gaim
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x0842a0b8 ***
Abortito
===
if I start gaim in debug mode it ends with 
===
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x083f5ba0 ***
Abortito
dns[10234]: Oops, father has gone, wait for me, wait...!
dns[10231]: Oops, father has gone, wait for me, wait...!
===

This are the system info:

emerge info
Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2,
2.6.13.4-LSD04 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.13.4-LSD04 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=pentium-m -mfpmath=sse -mmmx -msse -msse2 -fforce-addr
-fprefetch-loop-arrays -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=pentium-m -mfpmath=sse -mmmx -msse -msse2
-fforce-addr -fprefetch-loop-arrays -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/
ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/
ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/
ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/
http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo"
LANG="it_IT@euro"
LINGUAS="it en ru"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X aac acl acpi activefilter alsa amd apache2 arts authdaemond avi
bash-completion berkdb bind-mysql bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 bzlib caps
cardbus ccache cddb cdparanoia cdr chroot clamav clamd commercial cpudetection
crypt cscope css cups curl custom-cflags dba dbase dbus dbx devmap dga dhcp
directfb dlloader dlz dmx drac dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread edl eds encode esd
ethereal evo2 extensions extraengine fam fame fbcon ffmpeg flac flash
font-server foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal idn
imagemagick imap innodb ipv6 java javascript jce jikes jpeg junit kde kerberos
kqemu ldap libclamav libg++ libwww lzo mad maildir mikmod mmx mmxext motif
mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql nas ncurses network nls nntp nptl nvidia odbc ogg
oggvorbis opengl oss pam pam_chroot pam_console pam_timestamp pcre pdflib perl
php png postgres pwdb python qt quicktime quotas rdesktop readline real rtc ruby
samba sasl sdl sftp sftplogging shaper shorten skey slang slp socks5 softmmu
softquota speex spell sql sse sse2 ssl subversion tcltk tcpd tga tiff truetype
truetype-fonts trusted type1-fonts udev unicode v4l v4l2 vorbis wifi win32codecs
winbind xforms xine xinetd xml2 xmms xv xvid xvmc zlib linguas_it linguas_en
linguas_ru userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"

[Comment 1 Don Seiler (RETIRED) 2005-10-28 07:06:32 UTC]

Did you change anything in gaim recently?

I need a gdb backtrace regardless.

[Comment 2 Leo 2005-10-30 23:03:18 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
afik no.. i did not changed anything.

Could you explain me ho to do the gdb backtrace?

tnx

[Comment 3 Kurt 2005-12-13 10:50:09 UTC]

This just started happening to me today.  Exact same problem as reported by the
original poster of this bug.

[Comment 4 Olivier Crete (RETIRED) 2005-12-18 10:32:14 UTC]

how to get a stack trace: http://live.gnome.org/GettingTraces

[Comment 5 Kathryn Kulick (RETIRED) 2006-01-08 08:09:33 UTC]

Please provide backtrace information and feel free re-open