You can find the full description on the link i attached to this bugreport. I will attach the patch which fixes the problem for me (it's an upstream patch from the current MTN version). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start Pidgin and go online on one or more XMPP accounts 2. Go offline or disable the account Actual Results: Pidgin crashes Portage 2.1.5.2 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.2.4, glibc-2.7-r2, 2.6.25-tuxonice-r4 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.25-tuxonice-r4 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9300 @ 2.50GHz Timestamp of tree: Fri, 23 May 2008 09:33:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r4 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 9999 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.62 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18.50.0.7 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.25-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude-from=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes" 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/portage/local/layman/mpd /usr/portage/local/layman/marcel-overlay /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="7zip X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cdparanoia cdr chroot cli cracklib crypt cscope cups dbus dri dts dvd dvdr encode exif ffmpeg fftw flac gdbm gif gmp hal iconv imlib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg lame matroska midi mikmod mmx mp3 mudflap multilib ncurses nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl png pppd python readline reflection samba sdl session slang smp softmmu spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales vim-syntax vorbis wavpack wifi x264 xattr xml xorg xv xvid zlib zsh-completion" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" 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" 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="evdev keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeonhd" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS
Created attachment 154081 [details, diff] Patches which fixes the problem for me
Created attachment 154369 [details] Pidgin 2.4.2 stacktrace
Patch works for me too.
I added it to the tree
