Peace be with you, Over the years I have seen a pidgin bug sometimes. Instructions for backtracing are only for a few GNU/Linux distros and do not say where to get debugging symbols otherwise. It seems a bug exists with the display for default X setups, though I did export DISPLAY=0:0.0 and gdb reported a segmentation fault. I tried debugging but it says 'no symbol tables' a lot of times, though it does mention libgstreamer.
Following is the display bug, which has been reported again this year, but I see no fix listed for. ---------------------------------------------------------------- $ pidgin (pidgin:4199): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_display_get_name: assertion `GDK_IS_DISPLAY (display)' failed Pidgin 2.5.6 ** (pidgin:4199): WARNING **: cannot open display: unset ---------------------------------------------------------------- It mainly happens when I run X/KDE as root and pidgin non-root. Some people say not to run X as root, but I have used Unix/Linux 11 years and I am not going to: I would have to xterm login root most times, which is preposterous. On LinuxQuestions someone said remove .Xauthority, but root always makes it. I cannot figure out how I fixed this last time. I am not on the mailing list but if you add a report to the bug database or want me to try anything, just write me back here or privately to my same user name as this e-address but at gmail, which I check more often. Maybe within a couple weeks I will also check if the gmane group is this list. --David _____________________________________________________________ Find out what's HIP! Visit Hip Planet for news, shopping, forums, chatrooms, free personal and classified ads and much more! Get FREE E-MAIL! at HipPlanet now! It's all waiting for you, at http://www.hipplanet.com _______________________________________________ Support mailing list Support@pidgin.im http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support