On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 08:44:14PM -0500, John Lumby wrote: > > I am hitting this problem on one system where I built pidgin (2.5.3) and > several other packages from source. My debug log shows that > . prefs.xml read ok (parsed by prefs itself) > . all of the other .xmls - fail with parsing error -e.g. > (18:28:03) util: Reading file accounts.xml from directory /home/lumby/.purple > (18:28:03) util: Error parsing file /home/lumby/.purple/accounts.xml. > Renaming old file to accounts.xml~ > (18:28:03) util: Writing file accounts.xml~ to directory /home/lumby/.purple > (18:28:03) util: Writing file /home/lumby/.purple/accounts.xml~ > (18:28:03) util: Reading file status.xml from directory /home/lumby/.purple > (18:28:03) util: Error parsing file /home/lumby/.purple/status.xml. Renaming > old file to status.xml~ > (18:28:03) util: Writing file status.xml~ to directory /home/lumby/.purple > (18:28:03) util: Writing file /home/lumby/.purple/status.xml~ > ... > (18:28:03) util: Reading file blist.xml from directory /home/lumby/.purple > (18:28:03) util: Error parsing file /home/lumby/.purple/blist.xml. Renaming > old file to blist.xml~ > (18:28:03) util: Writing file blist.xml~ to directory /home/lumby/.purple > (18:28:03) util: Writing file /home/lumby/.purple/blist.xml~ > > and these are the ones parsed by the external XML parser. > > I am certain there are no strange characters or sequences in these files - > because they were imported from another system where pidgin parses them > successfully. I am guessing that there is something not > configured/installed correctly somewhere down in the guts of the perl > XML-parse and related perl modules, but what? The debug log does not > include any messages from perl. I have tried re-installing with all the > latest versions of "everything:" and still this. Every package configures > successfully and installs successfully and pidgin configure says it is using > libxml2 and XML:Parser. Nothing that I can see wrong. As mentioned in > other bug reports, when I quit pidgin, it writes out all the files just as > they were before, and on the next start it fails again. Very frustrating. > This did not happen on pidgin 2.3.1 (the most recent one where it worked ok)
Have you tried to open it up manually using a text editor to confirm that the file is not otherwise corrupted? Pidgin uses libxml and the xml files have to be UTF-8 clean, so you may want to double check that this is the case. -khc _______________________________________________ Support mailing list [email protected] http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
