http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=519737 User mkienenb@gmail.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=519737#c9 Maurice Kienenberger <mkienenb@gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|mkienenb@gmail.com | --- Comment #9 from Maurice Kienenberger <mkienenb@gmail.com> 2009-07-09 09:39:47 MDT --- To comment #8: No, unfortunately, I am no longer absolutely sure. Last night, after spending several hours, I was sure. But this morning, pidgin is not crashing, even though it was broken when I gave up working on it yesterday. What I know: - pidgin was working fine as of Wed July 1st -- I normally use it continously throughout the day to communicate with remote clients - The next time I used it was Tuesday July 7th 17:30, where I initiated a conversation. - I closed the window, and the other person sent a message to me, which caused pidgin to crash, at 17:37. Pidgin then crashed any time thereafter every time I sent or received a message. - The only installation change between 7/1/09 and 7/7/09 was the gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good 0.10.10-3.22.1 update. ================== 2009-06-30 22:10:49|install|yast2-sshd|2.16.2-17.125|noarch|root@linux-vauc|repo-oss|a6f22ee3885bb3fb9238ef2eb44a18661afe788b 2009-07-03 09:32:47|install|gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good|0.10.10-3.22.1|x86_64||repo-update|e0f58d5678d7931fff58529601e2751376276633 2009-07-07 17:50:51|radd |repo_7|http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Community/openSUSE_11.1/ ================== - At 17:50, I upgraded to pidgin 2.5.8 from the GNOME community repo. Pidgin continued to crash, and I stopped using it as I had other work that needed to be done. - On Wed 2009-07-08 at 8pm, I began the 5-hour process of trying to debug the problem. I downloaded the source for pidgin 2.5.8 and built a copy prefixed to install under a /tmp/pidgin-tree root as I did not want to overwrite any existing files. - The compiled version crashed at the same places. I recompiled with --disable-gstreamer and it stopped crashing. - I noted the gstreamer update. I downgraded gstreamer to 21.1. The version compiled with gstreamer support no longer crashed. The prepackaged pidgin also no longer crashed. - At the behest of the pidgin support folks, I upgraded again (at which point pidgin began crashing again) in order to try to generate a backtrace of the problem. That proved futile as the stack was corrupted (according to valgrind and according to the output) by the time the segfault was thrown. At 1am Thu 2009-07-09 I finally gave up trying to diagnose the root cause for the day. And here we are today. Now pidgin is working again, without crashing. Nothing has changed (other than an ImageMagick security update below). 2009-07-09 08:39:44|install|libMagickCore1|6.4.3.6-5.5.1|x86_64||repo-update|99ca96d0b1660b385d41344bc888a2b90fe735c5 2009-07-09 08:39:45|install|libMagickWand1|6.4.3.6-5.5.1|x86_64||repo-update|94d1ef5b4a3571d7f31cc8540aa50087a3c8926b 2009-07-09 08:39:53|install|ImageMagick|6.4.3.6-5.5.1|x86_64||repo-update|efb8d70f4f1b69824b70a90e2b726865b5276367 2009-07-09 08:39:54|install|libMagick++1|6.4.3.6-5.5.1|x86_64||repo-update|37c1bb788cd6f178eec22c02437cdee819a522bd It could be random coincidence, but I do believe that gstreamer is part of the problem based on the number of times that it affected the behavior over five hours of testing. Sorry I cannot be of more help. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.