[Pidgin] #1649: pidgin crashes on startup because of invalid entries in ~/.purple/prefs.xml

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#1649: pidgin crashes on startup because of invalid entries in ~/.purple/prefs.xml
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 Reporter:  rag           |       Type:  defect
   Status:  new           |   Priority:  minor 
Component:  pidgin (gtk)  |    Version:  2.0.1 
 Keywords:                |    Pending:  0     
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 There is an issue I've encountered both with pidgin-2.0.0 and and 2.0.1.
 When I
 receive a file over ICQ (I don't use anything else actually) sometimes the
 target folder, where the file was saved, is not getting saved to
 ~/.purple/prefs.xml. When I start pidgin the next time it segfaults while
 parsing prefs.xml. The corrupted tag looks like this:
 {{{
 <pref name='last_save_folder' type='path'/>
 }}}
 instead of
 {{{
 <pref name='last_save_folder' type='path' value='PATH TO THE FOLDER'/>
 }}}
 As you see the value-attribute is missing, which forces pidgin to crash
 while
 validating an empty string (see attached backtrace). The crash actually
 happens
 in GLIB in g_utf8_validate(), but, as I understand it, GLIB does nothing
 wrong.

 I use a few plug-ins, but none of them should interfere with prefs-saving
 code.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/1649>
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