[Pidgin] #4102: crash on startup due to status problem in accounts.xml

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Tue Nov 27 19:08:51 EST 2007


#4102: crash on startup due to status problem in accounts.xml
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Reporter:  glim    |       Owner:  lschiere                     
    Type:  defect  |      Status:  new                          
Priority:  minor   |   Component:  unclassified                 
 Version:  2.3.0   |    Keywords:  2.3.0 pidgin windows statuses
 Pending:  0       |  
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 Attached is a sanitized copy of accounts.xml, as used by pidgin 2.3.0 on
 WinXP.
 The only changes I made to the file was to strip out the username and
 password.

 pidgin.exe was crashing at launch. To troubleshoot, I started by renaming
 the *.xml files in .purple one-at-a-time to see if I could get the app to
 start.

 Once I discovered that accounts.xml was causing issues, I opened it with a
 text editor and noticed that two (2) statuses were set to active='true'.
 Setting the custom status(type='tune') to 'false' allowed pidgin to start
 correctly.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/4102>
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