[91] in im locker bugs
Re: Gaim segfaults
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arun A Tharuvai)
Thu Oct 2 01:29:32 2003
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 01:29:04 -0400
From: Arun A Tharuvai <aatharuv@MIT.EDU>
To: Kathryn A Hayes <khayes@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-im@MIT.EDU, aatharuv@MIT.EDU
Reply-To: bug-im@MIT.EDU
Mail-Followup-To: Kathryn A Hayes <khayes@MIT.EDU>, bug-im@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.55L.0310012129050.3951@nerd-xing.mit.edu>
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 09:54:21PM -0400, Kathryn A Hayes wrote:
> When I run gaim, It segfaults almost immediately after logging me in,
> every time I run it on way-mo-money.mit.edu. N.B.: I'm logging into
> way-mo-money over an X connection from afar. I doubt this is what's
> causing the error, but I thought I'd mention it anyway. I am logging in
> to AIM and MSN when it cores on me. I've included the backtrace below.
> If you want the core, I can give it to you. Also, here's some gdb
> wickedness for your amusement from when I tried to run gaim from within
> gdb:
I compiled straight gaim 0.70, and it also coredumped on me, when
logging in to MSN messenger on Solaris, with virtually the same error.
I filed a sourceforge bug at
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=816354&group_id=235&atid=100235
Arun
> >> Gaim's DNS child got a SIGTRAP signal.
> >> This can be caused by trying to run gaim inside gdb.
> >> There is a known gdb bug which prevents this. Supposedly gaim
> >> should have detected you were using gdb and used an ugly hack,
> >> check cope_with_gdb_brokenness() in proxy.c.
> >>
> >> For more info about this bug, see
> >> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2001-07/msg00349.html
>
> Keep me posted.
>
> -Katie
