Fw: Pidgin Crashing w/ Linux Mint Cinnamon

Tue Jan 6 11:33:16 EST 2015

Hi Dale,

I specifically requested you to reply to all recipients.

Anyway, it's strange that it doesn't ask for the debug packages - and you
shouldn't run the "gdb" commands from within itself.

Furthermore, are you using a third-party plugin for Skype? That may not be
supported due to the proprietary nature of Skype.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 11:11:46 -0500
From: Dale <sause.dale at gmail.com>
To: Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org>
Subject: Re: Pidgin Crashing w/ Linux Mint Cinnamon

Good Morning Shlomi,

  Below is the contents of the report after typing what you had told me 
into terminal.

dale at dale-UL50VT ~ $ gdb /usr/bin/pidgin
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.6.1-ubuntu
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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 "i686-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
Reading symbols from /usr/bin/pidgin...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /usr/bin/pidgin
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
[New Thread 0xae6ecb40 (LWP 12237)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xb71feb09 in vfprintf () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
(gdb) gdb /usr/bin/pidgin
Undefined command: "gdb".  Try "help".
(gdb) r
The program being debugged has been started already.
Start it from the beginning? (y or n) y
Starting program: /usr/bin/pidgin
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
[New Thread 0xae6ecb40 (LWP 12375)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xb71feb09 in vfprintf () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
(gdb)
(gdb)
(gdb)
(gdb) thread apply all bt full

Thread 2 (Thread 0xae6ecb40 (LWP 12375)):
#0  0xb7fdd424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
No symbol table info available.
#1  0xb7298a0b in poll () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
No symbol table info available.
#2  0xb7552a4b in g_poll () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#3  0xb7543b68 in ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#4  0xb754404b in g_main_loop_run () from 
/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#5  0xb6f5032a in ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#6  0xb7569c4a in ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#7  0xb7370d78 in start_thread () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#8  0xb72a801e in clone () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
No symbol table info available.

Thread 1 (Thread 0xb6a72b00 (LWP 12347)):
#0  0xb71feb09 in vfprintf () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
No symbol table info available.
#1  0xb72bd161 in __vasprintf_chk () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
No symbol table info available.
#2  0xb758616a in g_vasprintf () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#3  0xb7561673 in g_strdup_vprintf () from 
/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#4  0xb5fc0bd1 in skype_debug_vargs (level=level at entry=PURPLE_DEBUG_ERROR,
     category=category at entry=0xb5fcc2df "skype",
     format=format at entry=0xb5fcbc33 "Could not start skype: %s\n",
     args=args at entry=0xbfffcff8 "\020\307\004$\005") at debug.c:106
         wrapper = 0x80882f28
         message = <optimized out>
#5  0xb5fc1643 in skype_debug_error (
     category=category at entry=0xb5fcc2df "skype",
     format=format at entry=0xb5fcbc33 "Could not start skype: %s\n") at 
debug.c:76
         args = 0xbfffcff8 "\020\307\004$\005"
#6  0xb5fc1add in exec_skype () at skype_messaging_x11.c:338
         error = 0xb753fd18 <g_list_append+8>
#7  skype_login (acct=0x80197c40) at libskype.c:1685
         gc = <optimized out>
         skype_path = <optimized out>
         skype_started = 0
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
         errormsg = <optimized out>
         test_account = 0x0
#8  0xb740e278 in _purple_connection_new () from /usr/lib/libpurple.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#9  0xb73f93d9 in purple_account_connect () from /usr/lib/libpurple.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#10 0xb73fac2d in purple_accounts_restore_current_statuses ()
    from /usr/lib/libpurple.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#11 0x800290a9 in main ()
No symbol table info available.
(gdb) ^CQuit
(gdb)

On 01/05/2015 03:16 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> thread apply all bt full

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