Bug 174841

Summary:	gaim closes after running for a few minutes or attempting to chat
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Peter Quiring <pquiring>
Component:	gaim	Assignee:	Warren Togami <wtogami>
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Version:	5	CC:	eblanton, lschiere+bugs, mark, redhat-bugzilla, stu, wtogami
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Description Peter Quiring 2005-12-02 17:56:52 UTC

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051118 Fedora/1.5-0.5.0.rc3 Firefox/1.5

Description of problem:
Gaim just closes after a few minutes or if I try to send a message to someone.
I ran Gaim from a shell and got this error:

Creating link /root/.kde/socket-localhost.localdomain.
can't create mcop directory

I tried to delete the .kde folder but it just recreates it empty.
Tried to reinstall gaim - no change.
It was working before I upgraded from FC4.

Thanks.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gaim-1.5.0-9.fc5

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start gaim
2.Double-click a buddy
3.Send a message
  

Actual Results:  Gaim exits with error message.

Creating link /root/.kde/socket-localhost.localdomain.
can't create mcop directory

Expected Results:  Let me chat.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Peter Quiring 2005-12-02 18:14:38 UTC

I've tried to create a new user and copy my .gaim folder there - error still occurs.

Comment 2 Warren Togami 2005-12-02 18:48:26 UTC

Any different if you disable gaim's sound output?

Comment 3 Peter Quiring 2005-12-03 17:53:28 UTC

Yes, then it works fine.

Comment 4 Peter Quiring 2005-12-03 17:58:16 UTC

In sound preferences, I switched the "sound method" away from "Automatic" and if
  I try to switch it back to "automatic" it generates the same error msg (even
with all sound options turned off).
At least I can use it now.  Thanks.

Comment 5 Warren Togami 2005-12-03 18:07:47 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 169631 ***