The only USE flags I'm using are "dbus gnutls gtk nls spell" and have unmerged gufications, pidgin-encryption and purple-plugin_pack. I've tried re-compiling all of the following: "aspell aspell-dict enchant gtkspell glib dbus-glib" in that order. I also upgraded to glibc to 2.5-r4 from 2.5-r3, but that should be unrelated if my googling is correct. I re-emerged without the spell USE flag (while trying other combinations) and it worked, so here is the startup output at the command line with USE="debug dbus gnutls gtk nls spell" while starting pidgin: Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. USE="debug dbus gnutls gtk nls spell" emerge pidgin 2. pidgin 3. Actual Results: The command line output is attached. Expected Results: Pidgin should have started without the error. I could do a further gdb backtrace too if needed.
Created attachment 131186 [details] Startup output
please post `emerge --info` like the bug reporting page told you to
Oops.. Here it is: m linux # emerge --info Portage 2.1.3.9 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r4, 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 x86_64 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 242 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:48:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.21 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/conf.d /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--alphabetical" FEATURES="ccache distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --times --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages' --compress --whole-file" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp" PORTDIR="/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowex 3dnowext X a52 aac acl acpi addbookmarks additions akode alias alsa amd64 amr amrnb amrwb apache2 aqua_theme asf audiofile autoreplace avi bash-completion bcp berkdb bitmap-fonts bittorrent bjam bluetooth bookmarks browserplugin bzip2 cairo caps carbone_theme cddb cdparanoia cdr cgi chroot cli connectionstatus contactnotes cracklib crypt ctype curl daap dbus dga divx divx4linux dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdnav dvdr dvdread emacs emboss encode esd evo exif expat exscalibar faad fam fame fastcgi ffmpeg fftw finger firefox flac fortran fpx frontendonly ftp gd gdbm gif gimpprint glib glibc-omitfp glitz gmedia gmp gnutls gopher gpgme gphoto2 gpm graphviz gs gsm gtk gtk2 hal highlight history howl-compat i8x0 iconv imagemagick imap imlib innodb irc isdnlog jack java javamail javascript jingle jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility kdexdeltas kqemu krb4 latex lcms ldap libcaca lirc live lm_sensors lua lzo mad madwifi math matroska mbox md5sum mdnsresponder-compat meanwhile mhash midi mikmod mjpeg mmap mmx mmx2 mmxext mng modplug mono mozcalendar mozdevelop mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsha1 mozxmlterm mp2 mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer msn mudflap musepack mysql nas ncurses neXt network new-login nls nntp nowlistening nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis openal openexr opengl openmp pam pcre pda pdf perl php physfs plotutils png pnm pop povray pppd prediction python qq qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime rar readline realmedia reflection restrict rrdtool rtc ruby samba sametime sasl scanner schedule sdk sdl session shout silc skins slp smime sms smtp sockets speex spell spl sqlite srt sse sse2 ssl statistics subtitles svg swat symlink syslog tcltk tcpd texteffect theora threads threadsafe tiff translator truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb utempter v4l v4l2 vcd vditool visualization vorbis vorbis-psy webpresence wifi winpopup wmf wmp wxwindows x264 xemacs xine xinetd xml xml2 xorg xscreensaver xv xvid yahoo zephyr zeroconf zlib zvbi" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx ati radeon vesa" Unset: CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 112221 ***