Ubuntu
pidgin package

pidgin occasionally overwrites "accounts.xml" file with NULL bytes

Bug #182268 reported by Fionn
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pidgin (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: pidgin

I had it for the second time now within 2 Months, that pidgin was greeting me with "you have no IM accounts configured yet...".
Looking into the configuration files, I found out that accounts.xml has been filled with NULL bytes while still having its original size. All other xml files are apparently not affected.

Thank god I have backups but this bug stinks.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jan 12 13:04:42 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx ath_hal
Package: pidgin 1:2.2.1-1ubuntu4.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: pidgin
ProcCwd: /home/fionn
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
 LANG=de_DE@euro
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux rtfm 2.6.21.3 #1 PREEMPT Mon Jun 4 14:59:16 CEST 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

Tags: apport-bug
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Fionn (fbe) wrote :
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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 or 9.04?

Changed in pidgin:
status: New → Incomplete
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

Changed in pidgin:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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