crash when adding a jabber account

Thanks, but could you attach a backtrace/crash dump. Is this reproducable? Did this happen on edgy or dapper?

I have the same issue, current edgy (release). I have attached the crash report, I'll try to reproduce with gaim-dbg installed and let you know.

On a similar note though, there are reports of some similar jabber crashes being fixed in beta4, I can't be certain, but that might fix this.

Ok, can replicate with stacktrace.

Thanks, This is confirmed.

More added debug symbols, somebody of the team should forward this upstream.

--- stack trace ---
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1".
Core was generated by `gaim'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0 0xb69f8545 in srv_resolved_cb (resp=0x0, results=0, data=0x87ac378) at ../../../../src/protocols/jabber/jabber.c:485
 in ../../../../src/protocols/jabber/jabber.c
#0 0xb69f8545 in srv_resolved_cb (resp=0x0, results=0, data=0x87ac378) at ../../../../src/protocols/jabber/jabber.c:485
 js = (JabberStream *) 0x87ac378
#1 0x080a4adc in resolved (data=0x87ac3f0, source=33, cond=3) at ../../src/dnssrv.c:188
 size = 0
 res = (GaimSrvResponse *) 0x0
 i = 0
 cb = (GaimSRVCallback) 0xb69f84e0 <srv_resolved_cb>
#2 0x080fafe3 in gaim_gtk_io_invoke (source=0x87a1210, condition=17, data=0x8763a78) at ../../src/gtkeventloop.c:74
 gaim_cond = 3
#3 0xb7914c8d in g_io_unix_dispatch (source=0x87b4020, callback=0x80fafa0 <gaim_gtk_io_invoke>, user_data=0x8763a78) at giounix.c:162
 buffer_condition = 0
#4 0xb78eb802 in IA__g_main_context_dispatch (context=0x81860f8) at gmain.c:2045
No locals.
#5 0xb78ee7df in g_main_context_iterate (context=0x81860f8, block=1, dispatch=1, self=0x8165558) at gmain.c:2677
 got_ownership = <value optimized out>
 max_priority = 125
 timeout = 0
 some_ready = 1
 nfds = <value optimized out>
 allocated_nfds = <value optimized out>
 fds = (GPollFD *) 0x865f5c8
 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "g_main_context_iterate"
#6 0xb78eeb89 in IA__g_main_loop_run (loop=0x8625dd0) at gmain.c:2881
 got_ownership = -1215781920
 self = (GThread *) 0x8165558
 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "IA__g_main_loop_run"
#7 0xb7c20574 in IA__gtk_main () at gtkmain.c:1024
 tmp_list = (GList *) 0x0
 functions = (GList *) 0x0
 init = (GtkInitFunction *) 0x0
 loop = (GMainLoop *) 0x8625dd0
#8 0x0810fd0c in main (argc=) at ../../src/gtkmain.c:764
 saved_status = <value optimized out>
 opt_help = <value optimized out>
 opt_login = 0
 opt_nologin = 0
 opt_version = <value optimized out>
 opt_config_dir_arg = 0x0
 opt_login_arg = 0x0
 opt_session_arg = 0x0
 sig_indx = <value optimized out>
 sigset = {__val = {81927, 0 <repeats 31 times>}}
 prev_sig_disp = <value optimized out>
 opt = <value optimized out>
 gui_check = <value optimized out>
 debug_enabled = 0
 errmsg = "0\022õ¿ô\177ú·\000\000\000\0005`H·P\023õ¿ô\177ú·\003\000\000\000\000\000\000\000Ø\022õ¿U\021ú·\b\000\000\000\f\000\000\000\000\000\000\000t/õ¿þ\225ù·\210\212A·x\212A·\f\000\000\000\000\000\000\000š\227\204·è\034}·\000\000\000\000\001\000\000\000\000\000\000\000zòJ·è\023õ¿\226ªù·D/õ¿!\020ú· \200ú·€\201\000\000g/õ¿`/õ¿\\/õ¿\030\206ú·ô\177ú·\v\000\000\000\000\000\000\000P\023õ¿U\021ú·\b\000\000\000,\000\000\000\000\000\000\000t/õ¿þ\225ù·H\212A·\030\212A·,", '\0' <repeats 15 times>, "\030"...
 segfault_message_tmp = <value optimized out>
 error = (GError *) 0x0
 long_options = {{name = 0x8155c71 "config", has_arg = 1, flag = 0x0, val = 99}, {name = 0x814bf0d "debug", has_arg = 0, flag = 0x0,
    val = 100}, {name = 0x814beef "help", has_arg = 0, flag = 0x0, val = 104}, {name = 0x8138cd4 "login", has_arg = 2, flag = 0x0, val = 108}, {
    name = 0x81534e2 "nologin...

might be fixed with 2.0beta4, some similar upstream bugs are marked as fixed

the crash from bug #68692 looks the same issue:

1812 setting = g_hash_table_lookup(account->settings, name);
(gdb) bt
#0 0x08070cec in gaim_account_get_int (account=0xffffd1e0, name=0xb68371fe "port", default_value=0)
    at ../../src/account.c:1812
#1 0xb6828550 in srv_resolved_cb (resp=0x0, results=0, data=0x878ee08) at ../../../../src/protocols/jabber/jabber.c:485
#2 0x080a4adc in resolved (data=0x878d028, source=23, cond=3) at ../../src/dnssrv.c:188
#3 0x080fafe3 in gaim_gtk_io_invoke (source=0x8647b00, condition=17, data=0x87626e8) at ../../src/gtkeventloop.c:74

If this is still happening with Pidgin, please let us know.

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 alpha?

Edgy and gaim are not supported anymore. Please open a new bug if you get a crash with pidgin in a later version of Ubuntu.