[Pidgin] #9658: crash at start

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#9658: crash at start
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 Reporter:  louij   |        Owner:  rekkanoryo  
     Type:  defect  |       Status:  new         
Milestone:          |    Component:  pidgin (gtk)
  Version:  2.5.8   |   Resolution:              
 Keywords:          |  
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Comment(by iamttfan):

 I also ran into this problem. It's really a headache that I could not use
 Pidgin.
 Here is part of the bugreport:
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 System: Linux 2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i686.PAE #1 SMP Tue Jun 16 23:19:53 EDT
 2009 i686
 X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
 X Vendor Release: 10601901
 Selinux: Enforcing
 Accessibility: Disabled
 GTK+ Theme: Clearlooks
 Icon Theme: gnome
 GTK+ Modules: canberra-gtk-module, pk-gtk-module, gnomebreakpad

 Memory status: size: 0 vsize: 0 resident: 0 share: 0 rss: 0 rss_rlim: 0
 CPU usage: start_time: 0 rtime: 0 utime: 0 stime: 0 cutime:0 cstime: 0
 timeout: 0 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 0



 ----------- .xsession-errors ---------------------
 (<unknown>:3695): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_x11_xatom_to_atom_for_display:
 assertion `xatom != None' failed
 (<unknown>:3695): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_x11_atom_to_xatom_for_display:
 assertion `atom != GDK_NONE' failed
 Pidgin 2.5.8-1.fc11 has segfaulted and attempted to dump a core file.
 This is a bug in the software and has happened through
 no fault of your own.
 If you can reproduce the crash, please notify the developers
 by reporting a bug at:
 http://developer.pidgin.im/simpleticket/
 Please make sure to specify what you were doing at the time
 and post the backtrace from the core file.  If you do not know
 how to get the backtrace, please read the instructions at
 http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/GetABacktrace
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 Here is the info of backtrace:
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 Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
 0x00219ac8 in strcmp () from /lib/libc.so.6
 (gdb) bt full
 #0  0x00219ac8 in strcmp () from /lib/libc.so.6
 No symbol table info available.
 #1  0x08072077 in pidgin_blist_update_sort_methods ()
 No symbol table info available.
 #2  0x080857a8 in ?? ()
 No symbol table info available.
 #3  0x4c017418 in purple_blist_show () from /usr/lib/libpurple.so.0
 No symbol table info available.
 #4  0x080c60ab in main ()
 No symbol table info available.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/9658#comment:7>
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