pidgin crashes

[Sam Hawkin]

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From: Sam Hawkin <gvrtest at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: pidgin crashes
To: devel at pidgin.im


Hi,
Below is the debug messages from gdb.

[root at srv1 ~]# gdb pidgin
GNU gdb Fedora (6.8-27.el5)
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License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...
(gdb)  handle SIGPIPE nostop noprint
Signal        Stop      Print   Pass to program Description
SIGPIPE       No        No      Yes             Broken pipe
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/local/bin/pidgin
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0xb7f5c6d0 (LWP 31075)]

(pidgin:31075): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_display_get_name: assertion
`GDK_IS_DISPLAY (display)' failed
Pidgin 2.5.4

** (pidgin:31075): WARNING **: cannot open display: unset

Program exited with code 01.
(gdb)


Any help on this issue is highly appreciated.

Thanks.

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Sam Hawkin <gvrtest at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I using pidgin to send messages, I am trying it
> out in head less mode.
> I noticed that it was crashing in between.
>
> Before restarting I have looked for any old instances
> running, but I could not find none and I restarted afresh.
>
> I am following below steps to start pidgin in head less mode.
>
> 1) If dbus session is not present.
>
> eval `dbus-launch --auto-syntax`
>
> 2) If Xvfb is not present.
>
>   Xvfb :1 -screen 0 800x600x24&
>
> 3)
> export DISPLAY=localhost:1.0
> DISPLAY=localhost:1.0 pidgin -c Yahoo! -m &
>
> Can any one suggest us what might be the problem, and possible solution to
> it.
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Nagesh.
>
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