[OTR-dev] Re: Bug#411301: gaim DNS children die when gaim-otr is installed

[Ian Goldberg]

On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 12:48:26AM +0100, Thibaut VARENE wrote:
> tags 411301 upstream help
> thanks
> 
> This bug looks a lot like #404590. I think upstream is working on a fix.
> 
> Michael: do you happen to have 'combined' contacts, as in #404590?

I don't think this looks like #404590 at all.  That bug has to do
with multiple conversations being assigned to the same window (something
new in gaim 2 beta, and somewhat of a security problem in and of
itself).

Here, Michael is reporting that gaim doesn't start up at all!

This can't be a widespread problem, though, since we'd definitely have
heard about it by now.  Is anyone else running Debian amd64 (x86_64)
that can test this?

Michael, what other gaim plugins do you have installed?  Can you send
me the entire output of gaim -d?

> Ian and OTR people, FYI, if this bug isn't fixed ASAP, gaim-otr will
> unfortunately likely be removed from Debian 4.0 (etch) because of the
> severity of this bug...

What version of gaim is etch going to have?  gaim-otr still works great
with the last release (1.5), but is apparently having some issues with
the rapidly changing gaim 2 betas.

   - Ian

> HTH
> 
> T-Bone
> 
> On 2/18/07, Michael Berg <michaeljberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> >Package: gaim-otr
> >Version: 3.0.0+cvs20060530-3
> >Severity: grave
> >Justification: renders package unusable
> >
> >After installing gaim-otr, when gaim is started it pops up a dialog box
> >titled "GStreamer Failure" and with contents "GStreamer failed to 
> >initialize"
> >
> >In the console I started gaim from, several lines that looks like
> >=====
> >*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x00000000005f9fd8 ***
> >=====
> >print out, and then one new line is printed about every 18 seconds.
> >
> >In the buddy list window, each messaging service is off-line and has
> >an error message to the effect of
> >"disconnected: ... unable to send request to resolver process" or
> >"disconnected: Couldn't connect to host"
> >
> >
> >When I run gaim in debug mode (gaim -d), the following is in the output:
> >=====
> >....
> >*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x00000000005f9fd8 ***
> >dns: Created new DNS child 21220, there are now 1 children.
> >dns: DNS child 21220 no longer exists
> >dnsquery: Unable to send request to resolver process
> >
> >proxy: Connection attempt failed: Unable to send request to resolver 
> >process
> >
> >*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x00000000005f9fd8 ***
> >dns: Created new DNS child 21221, there are now 1 children.
> >dns: DNS child 21221 no longer exists
> >dnsquery: Unable to send request to resolver process
> >
> >proxy: Connection attempt failed: Unable to send request to resolver 
> >process
> >....
> >=====
> >
> >
> >When I remove gaim-otr, gaim works properly.
> >Without gaim-otr installed, the same section in debug mode looks like:
> >=====
> >....
> >dns: Created new DNS child 21274, there are now 1 children.
> >dns: Successfully sent DNS request to child 21274
> >dns: Created new DNS child 21275, there are now 2 children.
> >dns: Successfully sent DNS request to child 21275
> >....
> >=====
> >
> >
> >-- System Information:
> >Debian Release: 4.0
> >  APT prefers unstable
> >  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> >Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> >Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> >Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-amd64-smp
> >Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> >
> >Versions of packages gaim-otr depends on:
> >ii  gaim                    1:2.0.0+beta5-10 multi-protocol instant 
> >messaging c
> >ii  libc6                   2.3.6.ds1-12     GNU C Library: Shared 
> >libraries
> >ii  libgcrypt11             1.2.3-2          LGPL Crypto library - runtime 
> >libr
> >ii  libgpg-error0           1.4-2            library for common error 
> >values an
> >ii  libotr2                 3.0.0-2          Off-the-Record Messaging 
> >library
> >
> >gaim-otr recommends no packages.
> >
> >-- no debconf information
> >
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Thibaut VARENE
> http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/