Pidgin 2.5.5 crashes on logging in to MSN account with large number of contacts

[Ka-Hing Cheung]

On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 11:48:08AM +0200, Gilles Gravier wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Ka-Hing Cheung wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:24:28AM +0200, Gilles Gravier wrote:
> >   
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> Since this week, more or less, when I log into MSN Messenger with pidgin
> >> with my account "Gilles at Gravier.org" pidgin starts connecting, then
> >> crashes. This happens on Windows and on Solaris. With Pidgin 2.5.5.
> >>
> >> It doesn't happen with other accounts on MSN that have a smaller list of
> >> contacts.
> >>
> >> I've tried from a clean configuration (i.e. deleted .purple and
> >> re-entered the account details from MSN, supposing things like a cache
> >> corruption for the icons but to no avail).
> >>
> >> Suggestions? Ideas?
> >>     
> Actually, I've found what was causing it... One I removed all my Yahoo
> Messenger contacts from my MSN profile (with a REAL MSN Messenger on
> Windows) then Pidgin doesn't crash anymore. It seems that Pidgin doesn't
> like finding my Yahoo contacts on MSN Messenger? Does it get confused?
> 
> So of course, now, it doesn't crash anymore, which means I can't
> generate a useful backtrace... :(

If a large number of yahoo buddies crashes pidgin, then it sounds like
something that's fixed for the next release.

-khc