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#16 segfault in pidgin upon app launch

Bill Tompkins — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 01:15:26 -0000

I think that purging/re-installing is a good idea. My suspicion is that the issue is with loading the resource for the "lock" or "unlock" icon. Possibly a problem with the resource files that would be fixed by a reinstall. For what it is worth, I'm not maintaing the code at this point, so while I'm glad if it works for anyone, I'm unlikely to spend time delving into any issues.

I'm not using Pidgin myself these days, so I don't have recent first-hand experience. But I'd suggest trying out the OTR plugin if you continue to have issues with this one.

-Bill

segfault in pidgin upon app launch

Cedric — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 20:56:40 -0000

Context:
Pidgin 2.10.9 installed in 64 bit Ubuntu 14.04.4 (kernel 3.16.0-50-generic #67 - Unity desktop) with following plugins:
- purple-hangouts
- libpurple-bin
- telegram-purple
- purple-skypeweb

Upon pidgin launch from Unity system tray, the pidgin contact window appears, buddies appear gradually: Telegram ones, then Hangout ones, followd by Skype ones. Once this sequence is over the icon in the launch bar disappears, the pidgin contact window with all buddies too and pidgin quits. It all takes about 3 seconds and is absolutely reproducible across reboots. Prior to that, pidgin had worked well since installation, i.e. for about a week or so.

As pidgin crashes, I do in terminal:

$ dmesg | grep pidgin` gives:
[  483.627889] pidgin[4349]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f2e1a1e6468 sp 00007ffd63a9d790 error 4 in encrypt.so[7f2e1a1d1000+1b000]

Per Eion Robb's advice, I installed debug symbols, disabled Ubuntu's "apport" and:
$ gdb pidgin 2>&1 | tee ~/pidgin-backtrace-dbg.log

I included the backtrace log as an attachement.
I also I renamed the file /usr/lib/pidgin/encrypt.so and that suddendly makes pidgin stable at launch in Unity.
But apparently there is more to my troubles than just that. Apparently at present none of my buddies can see me online and vice versa.

I am very tempted to purge and reinstall pidgin and plugins, but I will refrain until I hear from you, in the event you need me to participate in some debug moves with my broken pidgin as it stands.
Pointers on how to proceed are welcome.

-ced

how to use with finch

Fritz Schmidt — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:35:45 -0000

finch is the console frontend for pidgin/gaim.

How can I enable encryption in finch?

Gaim2.0.0beta5

Chris Olin — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 22:48:30 -0000

When is there going to be a release that works with beta5?

Gaim2.0.0beta4

teamTMS — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:23:52 -0000

Can you recompile or make gaim-encryption work with
the current release of Gaim2.0.0beta4? Thanks.

Trusted Buddy Keys - How to use

John Simon — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 18:40:02 -0000

I could not find info on how to use Trusted Buddy
Keys. Please let me know where to look.

Thanks!

GAIM not storing keys

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 18:49:27 -0000

email: mattbrown80@gmail.com

I am using GAIM 1.2.1 for Windows (xp)
I am using encryption pack version 2.36

The encryption is working, but when I go to the 'Trusted
Buddy Keys' or 'Recent Buddy Keys' tab there are no
entries.

I am chatting with another user who has an identical
configuration.

Any ideas what is wrong?

Thanks

Multiple gaim clients

Matt Olsen — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:26:43 -0000

I use multiple clients (work, home, laptop) with the
same screen name. Sometimes at the same time. Some of
these are windows machines and others are linux
machines. How can I use the same keys on all of these
systems to avoid the different key error and other issues?

2.30 won't compile

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 14:35:36 -0000

machine is (mostly) redhat 9, gcc version 3.2.2
20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)

gaim-0.82 compiled and installed just fine.
gaim-encryption's configure script didn't complain,
after I set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable.

make gives this:

In file included from cryptproto.h:21,
from config_ui.c:31:
rsa_nss.h:33:19: keyhi.h: No such file or directory
In file included from cryptproto.h:21,
from config_ui.c:31:
rsa_nss.h:36: parse error before "SECKEYPrivateKey"
rsa_nss.h:36: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or
union
rsa_nss.h:37: warning: type defaults to `int' in
declaration of `pub'
rsa_nss.h:37: warning: data definition has no type or
storage class
rsa_nss.h:39: parse error before '}' token
rsa_nss.h:39: warning: type defaults to `int' in
declaration of `RSA_NSS_KEY'
rsa_nss.h:39: warning: data definition has no type or
storage class
In file included from config_ui.c:31:
cryptproto.h:32: parse error before "RSA_NSS_KEY"
cryptproto.h:32: warning: no semicolon at end of struct
or union
cryptproto.h:33: warning: type defaults to `int' in
declaration of `proto_union'
cryptproto.h:33: warning: data definition has no type
or storage class
In file included from config_ui.c:32:
keys.h:35: parse error before "proto_union"
keys.h:35: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
keys.h:43: parse error before '}' token
config_ui.c: In function `config_do_regen':
config_ui.c:113: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
config_ui.c: In function `GE_get_config_frame':
config_ui.c:331: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
config_ui.c:337: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
config_ui.c:339: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
config_ui.c:348: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
config_ui.c:354: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
config_ui.c:356: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
make[2]: *** [config_ui.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/local/src/gaim-0.82/plugins/gaim-encryption-2.30'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/local/src/gaim-0.82/plugins/gaim-encryption-2.30'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2

Gaim 0.82 build problem

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:43:13 -0000

On Gaim 0.8.2 the plugin doesn't build correctly due to
the fact that all the created .lo files are named "*.loT".

Rename the files manually to .lo and building works again.

On: Mandrake 10.0 i586, AMD64, 512Mb.

HJ Heins hjh@NOSPAM.mandrakeclub.nl