Pidgin crashes randomly in 10.10

[jfet]

Hi,

After upgrading to Ubuntu 10.10 Pidgin seems to crash randomly.
Dmesg shows me segmentation faults in various libraries, but the most common is: libpurple.so.0.7.3

Here it is:

$ dmesg |grep pidgin
[39837.965939] pidgin[16074]: segfault at 766c6f68 ip 005ab655 sp bfd376a0 error 4 in libpurple.so.0.7.3[51b000+f3000]
[43849.174005] pidgin[19601]: segfault at 27 ip 02db549d sp bfd61db0 error 4 in ssl-nss.so[2db3000+4000]
[44632.564359] pidgin[19724]: segfault at 67206d7d ip 00928655 sp bf84d0c0 error 4 in libpurple.so.0.7.3[898000+f3000]
[52967.877599] pidgin[20646]: segfault at 2d503264 ip 00445655 sp bfaf9100 error 4 in libpurple.so.0.7.3[3b5000+f3000]


My pkgs:

$ dpkg -l |grep purp
ii gpp 2.24-2 a general-purpose preprocessor with customizable syntax
ii libpurple-bin 1:2.7.3-1ubuntu3.2 multi-protocol instant messaging library - extra utilities
ii libpurple0 1:2.7.3-1ubuntu3.2 multi-protocol instant messaging library
ii telepathy-haze 0.4.0-1ubuntu0.1 A telepathy connection manager that use libpurple
$ dpkg -l |grep pidgi
ii pidgin 1:2.7.3-1ubuntu3.2 multi-protocol instant messaging client
ii pidgin-awayonlock 0.5.2-1 pidgin plugin to set as away on screensaver activation
ii pidgin-data 1:2.7.3-1ubuntu3.2 multi-protocol instant messaging client - data files
ii pidgin-libnotify 0.14-4ubuntu1 display notification bubbles in pidgin
ii pidgin-plugin-pack 2.6.3-1ubuntu1 Collection of Pidgin plugins




$ uname -a
Linux dome-laptop 2.6.35-24-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 2 01:41:57 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux


Do you have any ideas what is wrong here?

[jcer93705]

Hi,

After upgrading to Ubuntu 10.10 Pidgin seems to crash randomly.
Dmesg shows me segmentation faults in various libraries, but the most common is: libpurple.so.0.7.3

Here it is:

$ dmesg |grep pidgin
[39837.965939] pidgin[16074]: segfault at 766c6f68 ip 005ab655 sp bfd376a0 error 4 in libpurple.so.0.7.3[51b000+f3000]
[43849.174005] pidgin[19601]: segfault at 27 ip 02db549d sp bfd61db0 error 4 in ssl-nss.so[2db3000+4000]
[44632.564359] pidgin[19724]: segfault at 67206d7d ip 00928655 sp bf84d0c0 error 4 in libpurple.so.0.7.3[898000+f3000]
[52967.877599] pidgin[20646]: segfault at 2d503264 ip 00445655 sp bfaf9100 error 4 in libpurple.so.0.7.3[3b5000+f3000]


My pkgs:

$ dpkg -l |grep purp
ii gpp 2.24-2 a general-purpose preprocessor with customizable syntax
ii libpurple-bin 1:2.7.3-1ubuntu3.2 multi-protocol instant messaging library - extra utilities
ii libpurple0 1:2.7.3-1ubuntu3.2 multi-protocol instant messaging library
ii telepathy-haze 0.4.0-1ubuntu0.1 A telepathy connection manager that use libpurple
$ dpkg -l |grep pidgi
ii pidgin 1:2.7.3-1ubuntu3.2 multi-protocol instant messaging client
ii pidgin-awayonlock 0.5.2-1 pidgin plugin to set as away on screensaver activation
ii pidgin-data 1:2.7.3-1ubuntu3.2 multi-protocol instant messaging client - data files
ii pidgin-libnotify 0.14-4ubuntu1 display notification bubbles in pidgin
ii pidgin-plugin-pack 2.6.3-1ubuntu1 Collection of Pidgin plugins



Do you have any ideas what is wrong here?

My crashes too in ubuntu 10.10 x64 and we're also on 2.7.3 i wunder if 2.7.9 will fix the problem??

[zdesigner]

I have almost the same problem. The only difference is that the segfault occurs in pidgin instead of libpurple.so.0.7.3 - or I misunderstood the output of dmesg.


$ dmesg | grep pidgin
[ 2232.460266] pidgin[2102]: segfault at 58 ip 000000000045d5bd sp 00007fff9f132f80 error 4 in pidgin[400000+e4000]


$ dpkg -l | grep purp
ii libpurple-bin 1:2.7.3-1ubuntu3.2 multi-protocol instant messaging library - extra utilities
ii libpurple0 1:2.7.3-1ubuntu3.2 multi-protocol instant messaging library
ii pidgin-skype 20100302+dfsg-1 Skype plugin for libpurple messengers
ii telepathy-haze 0.4.0-1ubuntu0.1 A telepathy connection manager that use libpurple


$ dpkg -l | grep pidgi
ii pidgin 1:2.7.3-1ubuntu3.2 multi-protocol instant messaging client
ii pidgin-data 1:2.7.3-1ubuntu3.2 multi-protocol instant messaging client - data files
ii pidgin-encryption 3.1-1 pidgin plugin that provides transparent encryption
ii pidgin-libnotify 0.14-4ubuntu1 display notification bubbles in pidgin
ii pidgin-microblog 0.3.0-1 Microblogging plugins for Pidgin
ii pidgin-otr 3.2.0-5 Off-the-Record Messaging plugin for pidgin
ii pidgin-plugin-pack 2.6.3-1ubuntu1 Collection of Pidgin plugins
ii pidgin-screenlet 0.3.5~maverick1 A Screenlet to show the Pidgin contactlist
ii pidgin-skype 20100302+dfsg-1 Skype plugin for libpurple messengers



$ uname -a
Linux latitude 2.6.35-24-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 2 02:41:37 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[jcer93705]

My problem is the app doesn't responde, its either turn white or black the window and then suck up 100 percent one of my cores. Then I
had to open up system monitor to kill the app. It's scary its a new computer and I don't want to bust a core.

[Krytarik]

Try upgrading to the current version using their own PPA, maybe it helps:
https://launchpad.net/~pidgin-developers/+archive/ppa/

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pidgin-developers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Greetings.

[mustang]

Try upgrading to the current version using their own PPA, maybe it helps:
https://launchpad.net/~pidgin-developers/+archive/ppa/

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pidgin-developers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Greetings.

I'm also getting lots of random crashes. Running x86_64 10.10.

Thanks for posting this Krytarik. Will try it out.

[jfet]

Try upgrading to the current version using their own PPA, maybe it helps:
https://launchpad.net/~pidgin-developers/+archive/ppa/

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pidgin-developers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Greetings.

It seems that the crashes are not so frequent, and now it have no trace in dmesg either.
But pidgin still gets closed/terminated/crashed time to time.
But this state is much better, thank you!

[rrsn]

It seems that the crashes are not so frequent, and now it have no trace in dmesg either.
But pidgin still gets closed/terminated/crashed time to time.
But this state is much better, thank you!

I have the same problem, pidgin 2.7.9 crash random time in my Ubuntu 10.10.
There is a solution for this?

[Krytarik]

I have the same problem, pidgin 2.7.9 crash random time in my Ubuntu 10.10.
There is a solution for this?
I did check its website just yet, version 2.7.10 is out since a month now, but they still didn't update their PPA. If you need a quick fix, I'm afraid you have to compile it yourself:
http://www.pidgin.im/download/source/
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompilingEasyHowTo

[rrsn]

I did check its website just yet, version 2.7.10 is out since a month now, but they still didn't update their PPA. If you need a quick fix, I'm afraid you have to compile it yourself:
http://www.pidgin.im/download/source/
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompilingEasyHowTo

I cant compile this version of pidgin, too many dependencies are required, I have installed many "dev" resources but din't work.

aggggggrrrhhhhh Empathy sucks!!!!! I need my pidgin back! huahuahuhua

[Krytarik]

I cant compile this version of pidgin, too many dependencies are required, I have installed many "dev" resources but din't work.

aggggggrrrhhhhh Empathy sucks!!!!! I need my pidgin back! huahuahuhua
LOL, Empathy didn't work at all for me, I tried it once.

Actually I successfully compiled it a couple of times a while ago back in Gutsy 7.10.
What error are you currently getting when doing "configure"?

[rrsn]

LOL, Empathy didn't work at all for me, I tried it once.

Actually I successfully compiled it a couple of times a while ago back in Gutsy 7.10.
What error are you currently getting when doing "configure"?

I'm running a build-dep now, maybe work to compile last version of pidgin kakakakakka

[paqueteuy]

Try upgrading to the current version using their own PPA, maybe it helps:
https://launchpad.net/~pidgin-developers/+archive/ppa/ (https://launchpad.net/%7Epidgin-developers/+archive/ppa/)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pidgin-developers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgradeGreetings.

This seems to work for me, Pidgin 2.7.9 has not crashed after an hour of use, which largely exceeds the average 5 minutes until a crash in Pidgin 2.7.3.

I was having random segfaults in pidgin 2.7.3, according to the log .
No extra information was gathered if executed from a terminal in debug mode.
Just this:

pidgin[7543]: segfault at 2f82 ip b6e87655 sp bffbcc90 error 4 in libpurple.so.0.7.3[b6df7000+f3000]