Bug 90673 – GAIM segfaults when trying to send or recieve IMs

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: VERIFIED NEEDINFO

[Description Ryan Bair 2005-04-27 20:21:02 UTC]

gaim 1.21 segfaults 100% of the time when trying to recieve or send an instant message.  I re-emerged it using the debug flag.  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start gaim
2.Send an IM
3.

Actual Results:  
It segfaulted.

Expected Results:  
Worked.

emerge --info:
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.10
Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3-20050110,
glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1, 2.6.11-hardened-r1 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11-hardened-r1 i686 Pentium II (Deschutes)
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Apr  6 2005, 10:49:21)]
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r7
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.14
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r4
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium2 -mmmx -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fforce-mem
-fforce-addr -mfpmath=387"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium2 -mmmx -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fforce-mem
-fforce-addr -mfpmath=387"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo
ftp://130.207.108.134/pub/gentoo ftp://130.207.108.135/pub/gentoo
http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/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="x86 3dfx X acpi alsa apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dba dvd
dvdread emboss encode fastcgi foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imlib
java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses
nls nptl ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline
real ruby samba sdl server spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd threads tiff truetype
truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb vorbis wmf xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

And gaim -d output after a lot of seemingly meaningless stuff:
oscar: Sending IM, charset=0x0000, charsubset=0x0000, length=1
dns[15768]: Oops, father has gone, wait for me, wait...!
Segmentation fault

[Comment 1 Jonathan Smith (RETIRED) 2005-04-27 20:22:31 UTC]

do you have sounds on? if so, try turning them off. this has been a problem for me. (not that it shouldn't be solved, just that it would be good to know that it is the problem)

[Comment 2 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2005-04-28 04:16:08 UTC]

*** Bug 90678 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 3 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2005-04-28 04:16:25 UTC]

*** Bug 90676 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 4 Ryan Bair 2005-04-28 04:37:01 UTC]

Wow, disabling the sounds did make it work.  

Sorry about the duplicate posts.

[Comment 5 Don Seiler (RETIRED) 2005-04-28 07:24:34 UTC]

I'm guessing you use arts for sound.

[Comment 6 Ryan Bair 2005-04-28 16:40:48 UTC]

No actually, its not even on my system because I feel that it is evil. I played with the sounds options a bit to try and figure out what was causing it more exactly.  Apparently everything is fine on esd, arts, console beep, and command, but it crashed everytime when automatic was selected and it tried to play a sound.

[Comment 7 Don Seiler (RETIRED) 2005-05-06 11:18:23 UTC]

If you don't use ARTS then we'll have a problem.  Can you get us a GDB backtrace?

[Comment 8 Don Seiler (RETIRED) 2005-07-20 21:36:59 UTC]

Still need gdb backtrace.

[Comment 9 Ryan Bair 2005-07-21 07:36:57 UTC]

Sorry, I haven't been able to reproduce the bug in quite sometime.  Whatever it
was that was causing the bug must have been resolved in later versions of gaim.

[Comment 10 Don Seiler (RETIRED) 2005-07-21 07:38:33 UTC]

Very well.