Gaim broken after Glib 2.10 upgrade

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Wed May 3 04:31:42 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 05:30 +0200, Jean-Yves Lefort wrote:
> On Wed, 3 May 2006 05:20:27 +0200
> Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 02 May 2006 23:09:02 -0300
> > Rainer Alves <rainer.alves at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > After updating Gnome to 2.14 and Glib to 2.10, GAIM is now broken and 
> > > segfaults whenever I try to establish a connection. Rebuilding all gaim 
> > > dependecies didn't help.
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > [Switching to Thread 0x82502e0 (LWP 100113)]
> > > 0x286cb9d7 in g_slice_alloc () from /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> > > (gdb) bt
> > > #0  0x286cb9d7 in g_slice_alloc () from /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> > > #1  0x286cbdd9 in g_slist_prepend () from /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> > > #2  0x286ce18c in g_strsplit () from /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> > > #3  0x28eae47d in msn_command_from_string (string=0x0) at command.c:60
> > 
> > You have found yet another gaim hole. The argument passed to
> > msn_command_from_string() is null, but that function does not accept a
> > null string. I suggest you alert both the gaim people and the FreeBSD
> > port maintainer.
> 
> Actually, after reading some more it appears that this backtrace is
> bogus; the string passed to msn_command_from_string() should be the
> same as the string passed to msn_cmdproc_process_cmd_text(), which is
> not null.

Yep, but I still haven't found the cause of the crash.  It might help to
get full glib symbols, but it would be better to report this to the Gaim
authors.

Joe

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