Pidgin running without window in WinXP

Fri Nov 23 15:03:19 EST 2007

On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:42:15 -0500, "Daniel Atallah"
<daniel.atallah at gmail.com> said:
> On Nov 23, 2007 12:40 PM, David.R.Gilson <david at davidgilson.co.uk> wrote:
> [snip]
> What I would suggest is to obtain a debug log by following the
> instructions
> at http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/TipsForBugReports to run from the
> command
> line and redirect the output to a file.  Hopefully this will provide some
> useful clues.
> 
> -D

Did as you advised, here is the contents of my debug.log:

Loaded exchndl.dll
Could not open reg subkey: SOFTWARE\GTK\2.0
Error: (2) The system cannot find the file specified.

GTK+ path found: C:\Program Files\Common Files\GTK\2.0\bin
Using SetDllDirectory
Setting locale: LANG=en
(19:51:59) wpurple: shfolder.dll not already loaded; loading it...
(19:51:59) wpurple: This version of shfolder.dll contains
SHGetFolderPathW
(19:51:59) wpurple: Purple settings dir: C:\Documents and
Settings\David.R.Gilson\Application Data
(19:52:00) winpidgin: winpidgin_init start
(19:52:00) wspell: Found Aspell in C:\Program Files\Aspell\bin
(19:52:00) wpurple: libgtkspell.dll not already loaded; loading it...
(19:52:01) wpurple: This version of libgtkspell.dll contains
gtkspell_new_attach
(19:52:01) wpurple: This version of libgtkspell.dll contains
gtkspell_get_from_text_view
(19:52:01) wpurple: This version of libgtkspell.dll contains
gtkspell_detach
(19:52:01) wpurple: This version of libgtkspell.dll contains
gtkspell_set_language
(19:52:01) wpurple: This version of libgtkspell.dll contains
gtkspell_recheck_all
(19:52:01) winpidgin: GTK+ :2.12.1
(19:52:01) wpurple: This version of user32.dll contains FlashWindowEx
(19:52:01) winpidgin: winpidgin_init end
(19:52:01) wpurple: wpurple_init start
(19:52:01) wpurple: libpurple version: 2.2.2
(19:52:01) wpurple: Glib:2.14.2
(19:52:01) wpurple: wpurple_init end
(19:52:01) prefs: Reading C:\Documents and
Settings\David.R.Gilson\Application Data\.purple\prefs.xml
(19:52:01) prefs: Reading C:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\Application Data\purple\prefs.xml
(19:52:01) prefs: Error reading prefs: Failed to open file 'C:\Documents
and Settings\All Users\Application Data\purple\prefs.xml': No such file
or directory
(19:52:01) plugins: probing C:\Program
Files\Pidgin\plugins\autoaccept.dll
(19:52:01) plugins: probing C:\Program
Files\Pidgin\plugins\buddynote.dll
(19:52:01) plugins: probing C:\Program
Files\Pidgin\plugins\convcolors.dll
(19:52:01) plugins: probing C:\Program
Files\Pidgin\plugins\extplacement.dll
(19:52:02) plugins: probing C:\Program
Files\Pidgin\plugins\gtkbuddynote.dll
(19:52:02) plugins: probing C:\Program Files\Pidgin\plugins\history.dll
(19:52:02) plugins: probing C:\Program Files\Pidgin\plugins\iconaway.dll
(19:52:02) plugins: probing C:\Program Files\Pidgin\plugins\idle.dll
(19:52:02) plugins: probing C:\Program Files\Pidgin\plugins\joinpart.dll
(19:52:02) plugins: probing C:\Program Files\Pidgin\plugins\libaim.dll
(19:52:02) plugins: probing C:\Program
Files\Pidgin\plugins\libbonjour.dll
(19:52:03) plugins: probing C:\Program Files\Pidgin\plugins\libgg.dll
(19:52:03) plugins: probing C:\Program Files\Pidgin\plugins\libicq.dll
(19:52:03) plugins: probing C:\Program Files\Pidgin\plugins\libirc.dll
(19:52:03) plugins: probing C:\Program Files\Pidgin\plugins\libmsn.dll
(19:52:03) plugins: probing C:\Program
Files\Pidgin\plugins\libmyspace.dll
(19:52:04) plugins: probing C:\Program
Files\Pidgin\plugins\libnovell.dll
(19:52:04) plugins: probing C:\Program Files\Pidgin\plugins\libqq.dll
(19:52:05) plugins: probing C:\Program
Files\Pidgin\plugins\libsametime.dll
(19:52:05) plugins: C:\Program Files\Pidgin\plugins\libsametime.dll has
a prefs_info, but is a prpl. This is no longer supported.
(19:52:05) plugins: probing C:\Program Files\Pidgin\plugins\libsilc.dll
(19:52:06) plugins: probing C:\Program
Files\Pidgin\plugins\libsimple.dll
(19:52:06) plugins: probing C:\Program Files\Pidgin\plugins\libxmpp.dll
(19:52:06) util: Reading file xmpp-caps.xml from directory C:\Documents
and Settings\David.R.Gilson\Application Data\.purple
(19:52:06) util: File C:\Documents and
Settings\David.R.Gilson\Application Data\.purple\xmpp-caps.xml does not
exist (this is not necessarily an error)
(19:52:06) plugins: probing C:\Program Files\Pidgin\plugins\libyahoo.dll
(19:52:06) plugins: probing C:\Program
Files\Pidgin\plugins\log_reader.dll
(19:52:06) plugins: probing C:\Program
Files\Pidgin\plugins\markerline.dll
(19:52:07) plugins: probing C:\Program Files\Pidgin\plugins\newline.dll
(19:52:07) plugins: probing C:\Program Files\Pidgin\plugins\notify.dll
(19:52:07) plugins: probing C:\Program
Files\Pidgin\plugins\offlinemsg.dll
(19:52:07) plugins: probing C:\Program Files\Pidgin\plugins\perl.dll
(19:52:07) plugins: C:\Program Files\Pidgin\plugins\perl.dll is not
loadable: The specified module could not be found.
(19:52:07) plugins: probing C:\Program Files\Pidgin\plugins\pidginrc.dll
(19:52:07) plugins: probing C:\Program Files\Pidgin\plugins\psychic.dll
(19:52:07) plugins: probing C:\Program Files\Pidgin\plugins\relnot.dll
(19:52:07) plugins: probing C:\Program Files\Pidgin\plugins\spellchk.dll
(19:52:07) plugins: probing C:\Program Files\Pidgin\plugins\ssl-nss.dll
(19:52:08) plugins: probing C:\Program Files\Pidgin\plugins\ssl.dll
(19:52:08) plugins: probing C:\Program
Files\Pidgin\plugins\statenotify.dll
(19:52:08) plugins: probing C:\Program Files\Pidgin\plugins\tcl.dll
(19:52:08) wpurple: Could not open reg key 'HKLM' subkey
'SOFTWARE\ActiveState\ActiveTcl\'.
Message: (2) The system cannot find the file specified.
(19:52:08) wpurple: Could not open reg key 'HKCU' subkey
'SOFTWARE\ActiveState\ActiveTcl\'.
Message: (2) The system cannot find the file specified.
(19:52:08) tcl: Unable to detect ActiveTCL installation. If you wish to
use TCL plugins, install ActiveTCL from http://www.activestate.com
(19:52:08) plugins: probing C:\Program Files\Pidgin\plugins\ticker.dll
(19:52:08) plugins: probing C:\Program
Files\Pidgin\plugins\timestamp.dll
(19:52:09) plugins: probing C:\Program
Files\Pidgin\plugins\timestamp_format.dll
(19:52:09) plugins: probing C:\Program
Files\Pidgin\plugins\win2ktrans.dll
(19:52:09) plugins: probing C:\Program Files\Pidgin\plugins\winprefs.dll
(19:52:09) prefs: /purple/status/scores/offline changed, scheduling
save.
(19:52:09) prefs: /purple/status/scores/available changed, scheduling
save.
(19:52:09) prefs: /purple/status/scores/invisible changed, scheduling
save.
(19:52:09) prefs: /purple/status/scores/away changed, scheduling save.
(19:52:09) prefs: /purple/status/scores/extended_away changed,
scheduling save.
(19:52:09) prefs: /purple/status/scores/idle changed, scheduling save.
(19:52:09) prefs: /purple/status/scores/offline_msg changed, scheduling
save.
(19:52:09) util: Reading file accounts.xml from directory C:\Documents
and Settings\David.R.Gilson\Application Data\.purple
(19:52:09) util: File C:\Documents and
Settings\David.R.Gilson\Application Data\.purple\accounts.xml does not
exist (this is not necessarily an error)
(19:52:09) util: Reading file status.xml from directory C:\Documents and
Settings\David.R.Gilson\Application Data\.purple
(19:52:09) util: File C:\Documents and
Settings\David.R.Gilson\Application Data\.purple\status.xml does not
exist (this is not necessarily an error)
(19:52:09) certificate: CertificateVerifier x509, singleuse requested
but not found.
(19:52:09) certificate: CertificateVerifier singleuse registered
(19:52:09) certificate: CertificatePool x509, ca requested but not
found.
(19:52:09) certificate: CertificateScheme x509 requested but not found.
(19:52:09) certificate/x509/ca: Lazy init failed because an X.509 Scheme
is not yet registered. Maybe it will be better later.
(19:52:09) certificate/x509/ca: Init failed, probably because a
dependency is not yet registered. It has been deferred to later.
(19:52:09) certificate: CertificatePool ca registered
(19:52:09) certificate: CertificatePool x509, tls_peers requested but
not found.
(19:52:09) certificate: CertificatePool tls_peers registered
(19:52:09) certificate: CertificateVerifier x509, tls_cached requested
but not found.
(19:52:09) certificate: CertificateVerifier tls_cached registered
(19:52:10) prefs: /purple/logging/format changed, scheduling save.
(19:52:10) prefs: /purple/logging/format changed, scheduling save.
(19:52:10) network: found network '83.100.234.89'
(19:52:10) wpurple: This version of ws2_32.dll contains WSANSPIoctl
-- 
David.R.Gilson
david at davidgilson.co.uk
www.davidgilson.co.uk