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[David Chmelik]

Peace be with you,

    Over the years I have seen a pidgin bug sometimes.  Instructions for backtracing are only for a few GNU/Linux distros and do not say where to get debugging symbols otherwise.  It seems a bug exists with the display for default X setups, though I did export DISPLAY=0:0.0 and gdb reported a segmentation fault.  I tried debugging but it says 'no symbol tables' a lot of times, though it does mention libgstreamer.

Following is the display bug, which has been reported again this year, but I see no fix listed for.

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$ pidgin

(pidgin:4199): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_display_get_name: assertion `GDK_IS_DISPLAY (display)' failed
Pidgin 2.5.6

** (pidgin:4199): WARNING **: cannot open display: unset
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It mainly happens when I run X/KDE as root and pidgin non-root.  Some people say not to run X as root, but I have used Unix/Linux 11 years and I am not going to: I would have to xterm login root most times, which is preposterous.  On LinuxQuestions someone said remove .Xauthority, but root always makes it.  I cannot figure out how I fixed this last time.  I am not on the mailing list but if you add a report to the bug database or want me to try anything, just write me back here or privately to my same user name as this e-address but at gmail, which I check more often.  Maybe within a couple weeks I will also check if the gmane group is this list.

--David


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