Bug 91399

Summary:	gaim segfaults when an IM window is opened
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Christopher Cowart <ccowart>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gaim Bugs Crew <gaim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	2005.0
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Output from gaim -d Output from gdb gaim core Output from emerge --info backtrace (gdb)

Description Christopher Cowart 2005-05-04 01:40:33 UTC

When I run gaim, it segfaults. It was happening immediately upon drawing the buddy list window after logging in with the AIM protocol (did not segfault after signing in with MSN). I emerged gdb, and afterward (much to my surprise), it started segfaulting in a different place.

It now segfaults when a conversation window is opened.

The output from gaim -d is in the file gaim-debug.
The output from gdb gaim core is in the file gdb.
The output from emerge --info is in info.

Let me know if you need more information.

Comment 1 Christopher Cowart 2005-05-04 01:41:11 UTC

Created attachment 57997 [details]
Output from gaim -d

Comment 2 Christopher Cowart 2005-05-04 01:41:50 UTC

Created attachment 57998 [details]
Output from gdb gaim core

Comment 3 Christopher Cowart 2005-05-04 01:42:10 UTC

Created attachment 57999 [details]
Output from emerge --info

Comment 4 Christopher Cowart 2005-05-05 02:29:00 UTC

Created attachment 58114 [details]
backtrace (gdb)

Comment 5 Christopher Cowart 2005-05-05 03:06:44 UTC

I remerged gaim with USE="-spell" emerge gaim. It no longer segfaults. I decided to try unmasking and merging aspell-0.60.2. I then remerged gaim with USE="spell". Now everything plays nicely together - no more segfaults. 

I don't know if others using aspell-0.50.5-r4 are having the same problem. I also don't know why the newer aspell was masked.

Comment 6 Don Seiler (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-05-06 11:17:13 UTC

Can you confirm that downgrading aspell (and then rebuilding enchant and gtkspell and gaim) can produce the error again?

Comment 7 Christopher Cowart 2005-05-06 21:18:37 UTC

I downgraded aspell, remerged the mentioned packages, and rebuilt gaim. The crash no longer occurs.

Comment 8 Don Seiler (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-05-10 08:03:11 UTC

I'm going to chalk this up to one of those library-change snafus.  I would occasionally run revdep-rebuild.