Bug 76879

Summary: xchat crashes when opening channel list window
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Need Real Name <nephros>
Component: xchatAssignee: Mike A. Harris <mharris>
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list of all installes "freshrpms" none

Description Need Real Name 2002-10-28 17:09:03 UTC
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Description of problem:
sometimes the crash is complete, and the "application xchat (Process XXXX) has crashed (Segmentation Fault)" gnome window appers, other times the app just stops reponding (unable to focus, no redraws)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

[nephros@wirligig]:~ > rpm -qi xchat
Name        : xchat                        Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version     : 1.8.10                            Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release     : 8                             Build Date: Sat Aug 24 04:57:58 2002
Install date: Thu Oct  3 23:50:57 2002      Build Host: daffy.perf.redhat.com
Group       : Applications/Internet         Source RPM: xchat-1.8.10-8.src.rpm
Size        : 3183547                          License: GPL
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Tue Sep  3 23:43:46 2002, Key ID 219180cddb42a60e
Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
URL         : http://www.xchat.org
Summary     : A GTK+ IRC (chat) client.
Description :
X-Chat is a graphical IRC chat client for the X Window System. X-Chat is
fairly easy to use and includes a nice GNOME/GTK+ based user interface.
[nephros@wirligig]:~ >


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. connect to an IRC server
2. click on "Windows" -> "Channel List Window"
3. if Window appears, perform a search, otherwise goto 6.
4. close Window
5. goto 2.
6. app crashes.
	

Actual Results:  xchat segfaults or stops responding

Expected Results:  well, the channel list window should appear

Additional info:

i am using stock RH8 RPMs from downloaded ISOs plus some from freshrpms.net, but xchat is NOT from freshrpms.

I am using sawmill, and gnome+nautilus.

Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2002-11-13 08:28:30 UTC
What rpms exactly from freshrpms.net?

Comment 2 Need Real Name 2002-11-13 19:50:58 UTC
Created attachment 84904 [details]
list of all installes "freshrpms"

Comment 3 Need Real Name 2002-11-13 19:52:19 UTC
I attached a file named "freshrpms.list" (which I hope worked), containing the output from:
 rpm -qa | grep fr1 > freshrpms.list


Comment 4 Mike McLean 2003-01-02 17:45:31 UTC
This bug has been inappropriately marked MODIFIED. Please review the bug life
cycle information at 
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/bug_status.cgi

Changing bug status to ASSIGNED.

Comment 5 Mike A. Harris 2003-01-11 11:35:51 UTC
I can't reproduce this.  Obviously whatever you're doing that is crashing
xchat, is something specific to your local setup.  It could possibly be
a specific xchat configuration or configuration option perhaps, or it could
be locale perhaps, or some other thing.  I don't think it is specific JUST
to your system however, as I've seen other users report similar things too.

I just am not able to reproduce it yet.  My currently running xchat process
has been running nonstop for about 2 months without a restart, on
irc.freenode.net, internal Red Hat IRC, and 2 other private networks.  I've
generally got about 20-40 tabs open across 3 or more servers at any one given
time, and I look at channel lists quite often, as well as banlist, and various
other popup things.

I'm not sure what to suggest for now.  Could you enable core dumps perhaps,
and get a backtrace from it using gdb?  To do so:

ulimit -c unlimited
xchat &
<make xchat crash>
gdb --core <corefilename>
gdb> bt

The corefilename will be either "core" or "core.nnnn" where nnnn is a number.

Please attach the output of gdb from the bt command.

Also, as noted above, do not set bugs to the MODIFIED state in bugzilla.
MODIFIED means "Developer has fixed this, and requests user to test the fix",
which also means the developer will never look at the bug report again unless
someone sets it to ASSIGNED indicating the fix being tested did not work.

Comment 6 Mike A. Harris 2003-01-11 11:56:31 UTC
Son of a *****.  I just reproduced this!

Also, I just discovered there are other bug reports open about this, so
I'm going to close this one as a duplicate.  Please do any follow ups in
the other bug report.  Thanks.


Comment 7 Mike A. Harris 2003-01-11 11:57:23 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 77446 ***

Comment 8 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:50:03 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.