xchat v2.6.0 crashing

[Adam McLaurin]

Hi Alex,

Well, I enabled dbus and reboot (without modifying my ~/.xchat2) and now
the new xchat works fine.

It seems they don't handle gracefully with dbus is not available.

Anyway, thanks for the tip.

-Adam


On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 23:53:43 -0500, "Alex Ford" <abford at sbcglobal.net>
said:
> On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 21:57 -0500, Michael Johnson wrote:
> > On Nov 8, 2005, at 9:42 PM, Adam McLaurin wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > xchat2 v2.6.0 crashes for me right after the GUI starts up and it  
> > > tries
> > > to connect to the server.
> > >
> > >
> > > I upgraded my xchat along with all the new GNOME/GTK stuff, but the  
> > > rest
> > > of what was upgraded seems to be working, so probably xchat is to  
> > > blame.
> > >
> > > Anyone else experiencing similar problems?
> > >
> > > I'm running 5.4-RELEASE here, if it matters.
> > 
> 
> I had this same exact problem after updating everything on my system
> yesterday. Running 6.0-RELEASE here.
> 
> > I personally haven't seen this, but I have seen other people on irc  
> > bitch about it.
> > It seems it has something to do with ~/.xchat2 config and if you  
> > remove it
> > everything will work. Please file a bug with xchat dev people
> 
> I also tried playing around with removing ~/.xchat. It only succeeded in
> letting the server connect box come up (as opposed to crashing right
> away). If I then hit the connect button it brings up the regular xchat
> interface and connects to an IRC channel (the default #chatjunkie, IIRC)
> and you can use it normally. If you checked that box that disables the
> server connect at startup, however, it still crashed the next time I
> attempted to run it. 
> 
> On a whim, having been hearing about more and more GNOME apps using
> dbus, I went and followed the instructions in the freebsd.org/gnome FAQ
> to enable it. 
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q25
> 
> I rebooted and xchat started up perfectly fine. Now, I don't know if it
> was directly related, but I had only played around with that ~/.xchat2
> directory, nothing else after the upgrading, until the dbus
> enabling/rebooting.
> 
> Just my experience for what it's worth,
> Alex
> 
> 
> 
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