ports/91712: irc/xchat2 hangup with perl plugin enabled

[Frank Altpeter]

>Number:         91712
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       irc/xchat2 hangup with perl plugin enabled
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
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>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jan 12 16:00:20 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Frank Altpeter
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD pegasus.dyndns.info 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #1: Wed Jan 4 18:12:48 CET 2006 root at pegasus.dyndns.info:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/kernconf.pegasus i386


	
>Description:
	Since some time (i think since about the update to perl-5.8.4) the xchat2 program does hangup suddenly (and not really reproducable), but only if the perl plugin remains enabled.
	xchat then consumes 100% cpu load and can only be removed with a SIGKILL.
	When starting xchat with "-n" or removing /usr/X11R6/lib/xchat/plugins/perl.so, xchat runs fine again.

	Since the same behaviour occurs with xmms (which also depends on perl) i assume it to be a perl problem, but i'm not sure so i decided to post it as xchat bug first.
	
	
>How-To-Repeat:
	
	Install perl-5.8.7_2 and xchat2-2.6.1 and start it as "xchat". Chat some time and watch it hangup sooner or later.
>Fix:

	Currently, a workaround is to disable plugins with "-n" commandline option or to remove /usr/X11R6/lib/xchat/plugins/perl.so before starting xchat.

	


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