[SRU] xchat crashes frequently on quit

I just experienced this same thing.

I just closed it using the [x], and it popped up a crash dialog.

Only one time so far though, I can't reproduce it step for step.

Same here...

I've got the same problem. Until now only one time after using the window [x].

popup notifier said to upload this :D

Again, the bug reporting pop-up asked me to upload this

Crash report from me

The crash-report dialog comes up(apport?) when you close x-chat from the tray. maybe apport "thinks" there is a crash when you close the program from the tray. don't think there really is a crash but who knows I might be wrong ;)

to add to my last comment: i am not under the impression that x-chat crashes when you use the quit button in the application, only when closing from the tray, but I can't really reproduce so not to sure :)

This has been happening consistently when I log out of Edgy with xchat still running, although I don't there's any difference when closing Xchat manually.

Yeah it really happens frequently... (Reporting bugs from Venezuela XD)

I occurs frequently, and I think more frequently when closing from systray. I is a bit of a random bug, it doesn't always happen.

It's happening to me too.

Another crash report here

Yet another crash report.

Another crash output report..

I just found out that the bug is triggered if you close XChat with the "Close Window" button without using /quit before.

I used to beable to replicate this bug. but since I rebuilt it without the striping of debugging symbols... i can't seem to replicate it anymore. maybe it just needs to be rebuilt against current edgy? or maybe the stripping process is doing some damage? meh.

I discovered that /quit has no effect on the bug.

ignore my above comment. here is a good crash log.

this is using a slightly modified version of the xchat from edgy. the difference is that i've removed the stripping of debugging stuff. it was built using pbuilder.

yet another crash report

another crash

yup, me too

crash here too, but i'm not adding a report ;)

i get this frequently when closing xchat through the window manager.

I have just encounted this problem as well.

I had just finished my chat and then disconnected from the server and then closed xchat down and then low and behold it says that xchat crashed.

For what ever reason I did everything as pernormal???

I think you guys need another crash report, don't you? :P

Pasting it just for the record - I don't really care if everyone ignores this.

Same here

Same. Chatted in ##c for a bit, closed via "X" in the upper right, and boom.

This crash happened when i was closing it too.

Same thing to me. Crash on closing.

crashed on quit. doesn't happen always, but 6 out of 10 times.

The bug seems to be fixed in the current CVS version of XChat. Anyone could also confirm this?

cvs is fairly bleeding edge. tho i can almost confirm that this doesn't happen in 2.6.8

Xchat on edgy version 2.6.6-0ubuntu3 also frequently crashes on exit

Me tto.

Could someone tries to reproduce the bug by launching Xchat from the command line?

I'm experiencing this frequently on edgy ppc.

I've managed to get the error, running xchat from command line. I think the output is not very helpful, but here it goes:

$ xchat
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Same thing, closing xchat, don't really see it crashing, but at the next boot I got the crash message.

I suspect the fact that xchat is not entirely closed when I logoff the machine.

ProblemType: Crash
CoreDump:
Date: Tue Nov 28 22:56:12 2006
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Has anyone tried compiling Debian Sid's newer version of xchat yet? Though I
doubt that'd fix anything :D

I tried re-compiling the Debian Sid version and got a dbus error.

sid = debians unstable branch right?
i've been running debian's 2.6.8 for alittle while now. it fixes the bug.

i'm not sure how Mike compiles his software, but under a clean environment (pbuilder). debian's 2.6.8 compiles fine and fixes this bug without opening up any new bugs that i have seen.

debian sid's version does compile cleanly in pbuilder.... though I haven't tried it long enough to make a judgement about whether or not this is fixed yet.

I see xchat was merged from Sid and uploaded to Feisty. Perhaps that's the "fix committed" we're looking for?

I'll play with it a bit on Edgy and see how it is, and perhaps a Backports request can be opened for it.

a backport would not fix it for those who don't have -backports enabled. something needs to be put in -updates for this to be resolved properly for the majority of people.
if people don't have -updates enabled... well we can't help them.

happens more often if you are connected to more than one server then close x-chat with the keyboard Ctrl-Q combination.

Here's one of my crash just happened

It also crashes here

here too

I also got a crash when I closed it, though it appeared to prevent me from opening some widgets, like the shutdown computer button didn't work, and I couldn't open a new terminal.

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> I also got a crash when I closed it, though it appeared to prevent me
> from opening some widgets, like the shutdown computer button didn't
> work, and I couldn't open a new terminal.
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> ** Attachment added: "crash report"
> http://librarian.launchpad.net/5330393/_usr_bin_xchat.1000.crash
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After a very long conversation with the core developer of xchat (zed). I've gone along and hopefully fixed this up. Known regressions consist of loss of being able to use links from within firefox to open up irc channels and servers.

Testing packages:
http://mirror.randumb.org/darkmagez/ubu/xchat-common_2.6.6-0ubuntu4~dmzfix4ubuntu_all.deb
http://mirror.randumb.org/darkmagez/ubu/xchat_2.6.6-0ubuntu4~dmzfix4ubuntu_i386.deb

if you don't know how to install these, then you shouldn't be testing them.

have fun, hopefully this is it.

Would it be possible to get the patches you used? Binary packages aren't very useful.

Thanks

all that was done was disabling dbus in debian/rules plus lots of hacky changes due to xchat-remote another other stuff nolonger being made due to the disabling of dbus. for the diff used for these packages. http://mirror.randumb.org/darkmagez/ubu/xchat_2.6.6-0ubuntu4~dmzfix4ubuntu.diff.gz

DarkMageZ do you know what caused the bug? Is possible to reproduce it
easily, for testing purposes?

I attached the patch against the current Ubuntu version of the
package, for review.

It seems Launchpad doesn't support email attachments. :/ Here the attachment.

iirc....... edgy's dbus is borked, so for xchat 2.6.8, zed redesigned his implementation to protect against such borkedness. so unless we are going to put 2.6.8 in -updates then unless someone wants to alter edgy's dbus... or wants to pull that huge change back from 2.6.8 then the only viable option is to disable xchat's dbus support.

this is why xchat 2.6.6 works fine in dapper & fiesty, because their dbus is fine.

and no, i don't have a 100% way to replicate this. but it should have replicated by now or someone should have jumped up and down saying my package doesn't fix it.

Look good to me. The patch fixes the problem.

Subscribing ubuntu-universe-sponsors.

Please read and follow https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/SRU to get an updated xchat into edgy-updates.

Xchat crash log. Crash occurs frequently for me - almost 100% of the time when closing Xchat with the "close window" button.

Edgy, with Xchat 2.6.6

i got the same bug here and at home

Using Ubuntu Edgy Eft on an amd64 system, I get this error fairly regularly when I quit by typing CTRL+Q.

the samme thing crash when i close Xchat

The same error. I attached the log from bug report program.

while I download xchat, It happens crashes

while I download xchat, It happens crashes

Same Problem

Ubuntu 6.10

get a crash dialog upon exiting. Doesn't appear to realise that it didn't crash but that i purposefully exited and asks if i want to reopen

After using the [x] button, XChat closed and the popup error occured.

Ubuntu 6.10

crashed unexpected on quit

I don't think you need another crash report so i don't attach one.
This bugs reminds me of a similar one in ekiga.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359655

I can't really tell wether those bugs are related. I still hope it is helpful.

FWIW my crash report.

Same thing!

Another crash log

Applying the patch seems to have cured this on a test Edgy machine.

In Ubuntu Edgy, XChat crashes frequently when the application is
closed. This has the effect of opening `apport', the bug report tool.
For XChat users, this bug is annoying and gives Ubuntu a lack of
polishing impression.

The bug is caused by the `gconf' feature of XChat. The solution, for
this version of XChat, is to disable `gconf' support completely. This
has the side effect of removing `xchat-remote', the irc:// protocol
handler of Firefox. However, this feature isn't known or used by most
XChat users, according to a small survey in the #ubuntu and
#ubuntu-offtopic done in December 2006. Most users would prefer to get
this bug fixed. Therefore, I think it's safe to disable XChat's
`gconf' support to fix this bug.

The patch disables XChat's `gconf' support and change the Maintainer
to Ubuntu MOTU Developers. The full package of the fixed version can
be found on REVU at: http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?upid=4534

please use 2.6.6-0ubuntu3.1~proposed1 as a version number and edgy-proposed as distribution.

Others than that I'm not too happy about removing features in SRUs, but since you've have researched this thoroughly that most of the users won't mind having this feature removed, I'm not objecting on this one. Maybe you could also make this clear in changelog that the irc://-protocol will be removed?

Thanks,
    Stefan.

Oh, and please set yourself as assignee fro this bug.

I made the requested changes to the package's version. I also added a notice about the irc:// regression. And uploaded everything to REVU again.

> The patch disables XChat's `gconf' support and change the Maintainer
> to Ubuntu MOTU Developers.

Errata: The patch disables XChat's `dbus' support, not `gconf'.

+1 from me.

after some clarification on #ubuntu-motu, +1 as well!

Transferring to ubuntu-universe-sponsors, due to new motu-sru policy.

I have that problem too

Apologies for the delay in review. I've reset the Status and Assignment to match current Ubuntu-Universe-Sponsors practices, which may attract sponsorship sooner.

Fixed with the release of 2.6.8 in feisty.

What's the state of things here - is the fix in Edgy still desired?

edgy-proposed should not have the maintainer changed as the Edgy toolchain has not been extensively tested for that.

Personally I'm not convinced that crash on close is truly SRU worthy. After all, the crash (which technically qualifies for an SRU), with the exception of the crash dialogue, gets you where you wanted to go. Is eliminating having to close a crash dialogue box really worth the risk of an SRU?

I still think that a backported fix should be put in edgy-updates because
crashes are bad.

-- Asheesh.

Yes, crashes are bad, but balance a crash on exit versus the risk associated
with fielding change in a released distribution. I'm certainly not the final
authority, but I don't think it makes sense.

I've unsubscribed ubuntu-universe-sponsors based on the previous comment suggesting that an SRU may not be appropriate by a sponsor. Please discuss the suitability of this update further, and resubscribe ubuntu-universe-sponsors if there is consensus that an SRU is appropriate.

I don't feel all that strongly about it; no big deal. (-:

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