I'm seeing again this bug in 9.04, Pidgin version 2.5.5. It doesn't happen 100% of the time, it goes and comes intermitently.
$ apt-cache policy pidgin pidgin: Installed: 1:2.5.5-1ubuntu8.1 Candidate: 1:2.5.5-1ubuntu8.1 Procedure: click on the global buddy icon besides the status drop-down, the selector opens, and on double-clicking the icon or clicking OK, pidgin crashes. (Identical to that in pidgin-bugs #1857, which was supposedly fixed in 2.4.0) It happens now both online and offline, having a previous icon or without one. I have enabled MSN, jabber, AIM, yahoo accounts. The buddy icon I'm trying to select is a png. I got a backtrace after installing debug symbols with gdb: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 0xb70a6750 (LWP 25893)] 0xb769f51f in memcpy () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0xb769f51f in memcpy () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0xb79aab33 in gdk_pixbuf_loader_write () from /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 #2 0x080ea3c4 in pidgin_status_box_redisplay_buddy_icon (status_box=0x8770270) at ../../pidgin/gtkstatusbox.c:2262 #3 0x080ecf4b in buddy_icon_set_cb (filename=0x895e338 "/home/user/buddy icons/me/me.png", box=0x8770270) at ../../pidgin/gtkstatusbox.c:1536 #4 0xb77e9866 in do_callbacks (name=0x80fc0d4 "/pidgin/accounts/buddyicon", pref=0x8643c38) at ../../libpurple/prefs.c:759 #5 0x080ed0d0 in icon_choose_cb (filename=0x400 <Address 0x400 out of bounds>, data=0x8770000) at ../../pidgin/gtkstatusbox.c:1559 #6 0x080f1f6e in icon_filesel_choose_cb (widget=0x895d020, response=-3, dialog=0x8f86860) at ../../pidgin/gtkutils.c:2375 #7 0xb79370ec in g_cclosure_marshal_VOID () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #8 0xb7929c7b in g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #9 0xb793fe57 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #10 0xb79414b9 in g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #11 0xb7941936 in g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #12 0xb7b10b31 in gtk_dialog_response () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #13 0xb79373a4 in g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #14 0xb7929c7b in g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #15 0xb793fe57 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #16 0xb79414b9 in g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #17 0xb7941936 in g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #18 0xb7adebda in gtk_button_clicked () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #19 0xb7ae00f5 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #20 0xb7ae0143 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #21 0xb79eb8fb in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 #22 0xb78a12b6 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #23 0xb78a0b88 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #24 0xb78a40eb in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #25 0xb78a45ba in g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #26 0xb7b937d9 in gtk_main () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #27 0x080c31da in main (argc=0, argv=0xbfe71a04) at ../../pidgin/gtkmain.c:880 ** Changed in: pidgin (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => New -- (gutsy) pidgin exits when changing buddy icon https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/139081 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs