pidgin and VPN issues.

[Ethan Blanton]

Richard Allen spake unto us the following wisdom:
> > Expect gdb backtraces the next time this happens :)
> 
> Got them.   And things look a bit diffrent:
> #8  0x00007f0d7132bade in sipe_backend_transport_flush () from /usr/lib64/purple-2/libsipe.so
> #9  0x00007f0d71306230 in sipe_core_deallocate () from /usr/lib64/purple-2/libsipe.so
> #10 0x00007f0d712f3dc2 in sipe_purple_close () from /usr/lib64/purple-2/libsipe.so

Unfortunately, Pidgin-SIPE is an unsupported third party plugin.
Without looking too closely, I'm guessing there's an error on the
socket and it's not handling that gracefully.

> I did a few contiune's and ctrl+c's but always the same bt.
> 
> Step 0 lists fd 17:
> 
> [ra at hamburger ~]$ ll /proc/2863/fd/17
> lrwx------. 1 ra ra 64 May 14 00:04 /proc/2863/fd/17 -> socket:[155804]
> 
> This time a socket which makes more sense.  the last time I checked
> what the fd was pidgin had already recovered so perhaps some fd's had
> been closed and reopened throwing off the numbers?

Yes, it makes much more sense.  I suspect your analysis is correct.

Ethan