it doesn't happen on windows, only on linux.
2009/5/22 Geoffrey A. Baum <xiccarph.l...@xiccarph.net> > I have this problem also, opening the new emails window and choosing the > Close button on the mail notification dialog crashes pidgin. > > It doesn't always happen, but seems more likely to happen the longer > pidgin has been running (most of the time I have it minimized to the > notification tray). > > I saw this behavior in an earlier version of pidgin on a Gentoo system. > > -- > Closing the new mail dialog with multiple email sources sometimes crashes > pidgin > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/270286 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in Pidgin: Fix Released > Status in “pidgin” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: pidgin > > The description is a bit long, so bear with me: > > I have multiple email sources (a hotmail account and a gmail account). > If you have just opened pidgin, the "mail counter bar" shows the correct > number of emails (right now, for instance, it says "4 new emails."). > After a while though (especially if you get new email in the mean time) > this number is updated incorrectly (for instance, it may say "12 new > emails." while I only have 4, but I have also seen extremes as "140 new > emails" while I had less than 10 at that time). > It is when this counter is incorrect (which is actually a bug in and of > itself, the counter should always equal #emails from 1st source + #emails > from 2nd source + ... + # emails from last source) that the bug from the > description occurs. When I click on the "mail counter bar", the "new mail" > dialog opens and shows a number of emails (a number of which are duplicate > entries of one another). If I close this dialog, pidgin as a whole crashes. > > I've seen this problem every day for a number of weeks now, and I'm pretty > sure it's a bug in pidgin 2.5.x (or the libs used by it), but I've also seen > similar behavior in 2.4.x (at the very least the incorrect counter problem). > > ProblemType: Bug > Architecture: i386 > Date: Mon Sep 15 00:33:12 2008 > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04 > ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin > NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia > Package: pidgin 1:2.5.0-0ubuntu2~hardy1 > PackageArchitecture: i386 > ProcEnviron: > > > PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > SHELL=/bin/bash > SourcePackage: pidgin > Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686 > -- Closing the new mail dialog with multiple email sources sometimes crashes pidgin https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/270286 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
