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.
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$ 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
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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
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