Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 187830
xchat-gnome crashes when notifications plug-in is enabled.
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:29 EST
Description of problem: xchat-gnome crashes when the notification plugin is enabled. This has also been submitted as a bug to the xchat-gnome project. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336949 After reviewing this with some of the xchat-gnome developers, I believe this to be a dependancy problem. Fedora Core 5 comes with libnotify-0.3.0-6 and Fedora Extras 5 comes with xchat-gnome-0.10-5. According to the xchat-gnome developers xchat-gnome 0.10 requires libnotify-0.3.2. In fact, they say it can't even be built with 0.3.0. This is very likely the cause of the crashes that I experience with the notification pluggin enabled. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux) How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
This is due to the dbus plugin (XChat-Gnome Remote Access) not being activated. To prevent this from happening to other users, if the OSD plugin is selected, it should also activate the dbus plugin. Once I get some free time, I look to see how hard it would be to implement this.
I checked out your CVS version (prospective 0.11-1.fc5 I suppose), and this problem is gone, in that the DBUS plugin apparently can't be deactivated now. At least, if I try, I get an error dialog saying there was a problem unloading the plugin. Are you planning on releasing the new package, or are you waiting for a fix for that dialog?
xchat-gnome-0.11-1.fc5 was already pushed out on 06-Apr-2006.
[Why the heck are normal bug reports sent to fedora-package-review (and previously fedora-extras-list) via the QA Contact field?]