Bug 78088

Summary:	Gaim crashes when using Yahoo
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Florin Andrei <florin>
Component:	gaim	Assignee:	Christopher Blizzard <blizzard>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	CC:	trondeg
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Description Florin Andrei 2002-11-18 22:08:26 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020830

Description of problem:
I'm using Gaim to connect to Yahoo Messenger. It crashes all the time.

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open up gaim
2.Connect to Yahoo
3.Talk
	

Actual Results:  It crashes

Expected Results:  It shouldn't crash

Additional info:

I updated Gaim to 0.59.6 and it doesn't crash anymore.
They said something about a Yahoo bug that was fixed recently.

Please update Gaim to the most recent version.

Comment 1 Michael Wardle 2002-11-20 01:03:09 UTC

This seems to be a duplicate of bug 76955.

Comment 2 Trond Eivind Glomsrød 2002-12-03 21:17:35 UTC

Problem and fix both confirmed. It's pretty much unusable for the yahoo protocol
without the update.