Thanks for the advice. Eventually I discovered that my LD_LIBRARY_PATH was
not set and pidgin was loading the wrong libxml library file.
John
> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:09:04 -0500
> From: k...@pidgin.im
> To: johnlu...@hotmail.com
> CC: support@pidgin.im
> Subject: Re: more "Error reading blist.xml" (see also ticket #767)
>
> 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
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