Public bug reported: I am the lead developer of Pidgin. A user came in reporting that on a fresh copy of mate 24.04 launching pidgin would kill their X session and bring them back to the login screen.
The user ended up fixing it somehow. They booted from a USB key I guess and installed pidgin there, and after returning to their normal install it was fixed. However, I installed Mate 24.04 in a virtual machine and am able to easily reproduce the issue. I've tried to get a backtrace by running pidgin under gdb in screen, but all I'm seeing is an X error and nothing else this is also why I have apport disabled per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Backtrace. I've tried a number of things, but nothing has seemed to make a difference. However, I did just notice a backgrace in Xorg.0.log.old which I've included below. If necessary I can provide this libvirt based vm for testing there's nothing personal or whatever in it. [ 256.027] (EE) Backtrace: [ 256.028] (EE) 0: /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg (OsLookupColor+0x14c) [0x594269ec7dbc] [ 256.029] (EE) 1: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (__sigaction+0x50) [0x70928ac45320] [ 256.030] (EE) 2: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (pthread_kill+0x11c) [0x70928ac9eb1c] [ 256.031] (EE) 3: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (gsignal+0x1e) [0x70928ac4526e] [ 256.032] (EE) 4: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (abort+0xdf) [0x70928ac288ff] [ 256.034] (EE) unw_get_proc_name failed: no unwind info found [-10] [ 256.034] (EE) 5: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (?+0x0) [0x70928ac2881b] [ 256.035] (EE) 6: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (__assert_fail+0x47) [0x70928ac3b507] [ 256.035] (EE) 7: /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg (DRIMoveBuffersHelper+0xbd3) [0x594269e7e3c3] [ 256.035] (EE) 8: /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg (DRI2Authenticate+0xa6) [0x594269e806a6] [ 256.036] (EE) 9: /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg (DRI2GetParam+0x6b9) [0x594269e81409] [ 256.036] (EE) 10: /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg (SendErrorToClient+0x3e4) [0x594269d48ab4] [ 256.037] (EE) 11: /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg (InitFonts+0x3b2) [0x594269d4ce52] [ 256.038] (EE) 12: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (__libc_init_first+0x8a) [0x70928ac2a1ca] [ 256.039] (EE) 13: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0x8b) [0x70928ac2a28b] [ 256.040] (EE) 14: /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg (_start+0x25) [0x594269d35395] [ 256.040] (EE) [ 256.040] (EE) Fatal server error: [ 256.040] (EE) Caught signal 6 (Aborted). Server aborting [ 256.040] (EE) [ 256.040] (EE) Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help. [ 256.040] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information. [ 256.040] (EE) [ 256.060] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04 Package: pidgin 1:2.14.13-1ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-31.31-generic 6.8.1 Uname: Linux 6.8.0-31-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: pass CurrentDesktop: MATE Date: Mon Apr 29 00:47:08 2024 InstallationDate: Installed on 2024-04-27 (2 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 24.04 LTS "Noble Numbat" - Release amd64 (20240424) SourcePackage: pidgin UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) modified.conffile..etc.default.apport: # set this to 0 to disable apport, or to 1 to enable it # you can temporarily override this with # sudo service apport start force_start=1 enabled=0 mtime.conffile..etc.default.apport: 2024-04-26T23:30:36.471843 ** Affects: pidgin (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug noble -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2064079 Title: starting pidgin on a fresh mate 24.04 kills the x session To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/2064079/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
