Gaim broken after Glib 2.10 upgrade

Jean-Yves Lefort jylefort at FreeBSD.org
Wed May 3 03:31:06 UTC 2006


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.

-- 
Jean-Yves Lefort

jylefort at FreeBSD.org
http://lefort.be.eu.org/
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