GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 364282
crash in Gossip Instant Messenger: Changing focus from rost...
Last modified: 2006-10-26 08:08:45 UTC
What were you doing when the application crashed? Changing focus from roster window to chat window to another app by clicking. This happens with such frequency that I've been forced to (temporarily :) switch to gaim. I've installed the pitti gossip-dbgsym package, let me know if there is anything else I can do to help. Distribution: Ubuntu 6.10 (edgy) Gnome Release: 2.16.1 2006-10-02 (Ubuntu) BugBuddy Version: 2.16.0 Memory status: size: 138625024 vsize: 138625024 resident: 21475328 share: 13856768 rss: 21475328 rss_rlim: -1 CPU usage: start_time: 1161553510 rtime: 227 utime: 185 stime: 42 cutime:0 cstime: 0 timeout: 0 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 100 Backtrace was generated from '/usr/bin/gossip' Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 47569655324944 (LWP 12592)] 0x00002b43a86cdeb5 in waitpid () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
+ Trace 77759
Thread 1 (Thread 47569655324944 (LWP 12592))
Also, here's what was outputted to the terminal during this crash: vitaminmoo@moo:~$ gossip GTK Accessibility Module initialized Bonobo accessibility support initialized (gossip:12592): Gtk-WARNING **: gtktextbtree.c:3960: byte index off the end of the line Gtk-ERROR **: Byte index 17 is off the end of the line aborting... GTK Accessibility Module initialized Bonobo accessibility support initialized GTK Accessibility Module initialized Bonobo accessibility support initialized ** (bug-buddy:12611): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for Open Folder GTK Accessibility Module initialized vitaminmoo@moo:~$
Hmm, on further poking, it looks like gossip crashes every time my mouse hovers over my name in the chat window history. It doesn't seem to happen when hovering over the other person's name, though. I'm using the clean theme, and it actually happens when the mouse is over the darkened box that my name is in. Oddly, it doesn't seem to happen when using the blue theme, nor any other theme.
This looks like a bug that only happens when you are using a theme that can show avatars but avatars are disabled. Does that match your situation?
Indeed.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 363602 ***