Pidgin support: segfault in pidgin upon app launch

2016-08-31 Thread Cedric Bhihe
//Hello Eion, At boot time today, Pidgin launches and crashes immediately afterwards. Again It seemed to have stabilized yesterday after disabling the encryption plugin by removing /usr/lib/pidgin/encrypt.so. It gets messier by the day, so I am now purging all so I may start again with a

Re: Pidgin support: segfault in pidgin upon app launch

2016-08-30 Thread Eion Robb
Hi again, Which protocols are you seeing no buddies for? Are you actually connected to the accounts (see in Accounts->Manage Accounts... From the buddy list) and set to Online/Available in the buddy list? What protocols are you unable to connect to? You might need to email though a debug log

Re: Pidgin support: segfault in pidgin upon app launch

2016-08-30 Thread Eion Robb
Hi Cedric, This looks like it's crashing in the pidgin-encription plugin. Try uninstalling this plugin (or disabling by removing /usr/lib/pidgin/encrypt.so) and try again. You might also want to pass the backtrace onto the authors of that plugin to see if they can offer any advice on any

Re: Pidgin support: segfault in pidgin upon app launch

2016-08-30 Thread Eion Robb
Hi Cedric, If you could follow the steps at https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/GetABacktrace to get a backtrace from the segfault, that would be helpful in tracking down where the crashing was occuring. Cheers, Eion On 30 August 2016 at 18:59, Cedric Bhihe wrote: >

Pidgin support: segfault in pidgin upon app launch

2016-08-30 Thread Cedric Bhihe
Hello, === This is my second request for support. The first one on a different topic received zilch for an answer. I don't know whether this is because this discussion list is closed to newcomers or because my request was not correctly