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Bug 303155

Summary: net-im/pidgin Finch segfault on startup
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: solj <sol.jerome>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Gentoo Net-im project <net-im>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: critical    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: AMD64   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: backtrace from core dump

Description solj 2010-02-01 22:46:17 UTC
When trying to start finch, nothing appears on the screen. It is unresponsive to any input except ctrl-c. When I do this, finch crashes.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start finch
2. Ctrl-C to quit (since nothing else appears to happen)

Actual Results:  
Finch segfaulted

Expected Results:  
Finch should start successfully

# emerge --info
Portage 2.1.7.16 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.10.1-r1, 2.6.30-gentoo-r4 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r4-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q9650_@_3.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.0
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:30:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p35
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r2
dev-lang/python:     2.6.4, 3.1.1-r1
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4-r3
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0
sys-apps/openrc:     0.6.0-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.6-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 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:   2.2.6b
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.29
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=core2 -mtune=core2 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /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=core2 -mtune=core2 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo ftp://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/pub/gentoo/ "
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
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="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext X acl alsa amd64 avahi bash-completion berkdb bonjour bzip2 cleartype cli cracklib crypt cuda cups curl cxx dbus divx dri flac fortran fts3 gdbm gmedia gmp google-gadgets gpg gpm iconv imap ipv6 kde kerberos kvm latex ldap lvm mmx modules mp3 mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcre perl plotutils png postscript pppd pulseaudio python python3 qt4 quicktime readline realmedia reflection rss session sidebar smime spl sse sse2 sse3 ssl ssse3 svg symlink sysfs tcpd truetype unicode vim-with-x wma wmp xcomposite xorg xscreensaver xvid 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 authn_alias authn_anon 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 deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Comment 1 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-02-02 07:25:30 UTC
Please build pidgin with debuggins symbols enabled and try to get backtrace as described here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml Without this information there is nothing we can do here. finch does not crash here.
Comment 2 solj 2010-02-02 13:03:09 UTC
Created attachment 218169 [details]
backtrace from core dump
Comment 3 solj 2010-02-02 13:04:53 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> When trying to start finch, nothing appears on the screen. It is unresponsive
> to any input except ctrl-c. When I do this, finch crashes.
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. Start finch
> 2. Ctrl-C to quit (since nothing else appears to happen)
> 
> Actual Results:  
> Finch segfaulted
> 
> Expected Results:  
> Finch should start successfully
> 
> # emerge --info
> Portage 2.1.7.16 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib, gcc-4.3.4,
> glibc-2.10.1-r1, 2.6.30-gentoo-r4 x86_64)
> =================================================================
> System uname:
> Linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r4-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q9650_@_3.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.0
> Timestamp of tree: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:30:01 +0000
> app-shells/bash:     4.0_p35
> dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r2
> dev-lang/python:     2.6.4, 3.1.1-r1
> dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4-r3
> sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0
> sys-apps/openrc:     0.6.0-r1
> sys-apps/sandbox:    1.6-r2
> sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1
> sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 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:   2.2.6b
> virtual/os-headers:  2.6.29
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
> ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
> CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
> CFLAGS="-march=core2 -mtune=core2 -O2 -pipe"
> CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
> CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
> CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/
> /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /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=core2 -mtune=core2 -O2 -pipe"
> DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
> FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch
> protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
> GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo
> ftp://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/pub/gentoo/ "
> LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
> MAKEOPTS="-j5"
> 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="/var/tmp"
> PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
> PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
> SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
> USE="3dnow 3dnowext X acl alsa amd64 avahi bash-completion berkdb bonjour bzip2
> cleartype cli cracklib crypt cuda cups curl cxx dbus divx dri flac fortran fts3
> gdbm gmedia gmp google-gadgets gpg gpm iconv imap ipv6 kde kerberos kvm latex
> ldap lvm mmx modules mp3 mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl
> openmp pam pcre perl plotutils png postscript pppd pulseaudio python python3
> qt4 quicktime readline realmedia reflection rss session sidebar smime spl sse
> sse2 sse3 ssl ssse3 svg symlink sysfs tcpd truetype unicode vim-with-x wma wmp
> xcomposite xorg xscreensaver xvid 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
> authn_alias authn_anon 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 deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache
> filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic
> negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack
> vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux"
> LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses
> text" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
> Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG,
> LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS,
> PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
> 

Unfortunately, this appears to have been caused by an nfs-mounted home directory. While finch shouldn't segfault, I am unable to reproduce the error.