Re: Yahoo protocol failing in CVS

This should be fixed in CVS now.  It may take anonymous CVS a little while to
get the changes.
-Mark

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:51:38 +1100, Bron Gondwana wrote
> I'm getting crashes on startup with CVS HEAD when it tries to log me 
> in to yahoo.
> 
> GDB output is below.  I've tracked the issue back through 'id' being
> NULL to what I believe is the root cause.
> 
> Starting from a fresh configuration, MSN works but Y! doesn't.  
> They're the two protocols I use with Gaim.  It also fails starting
> with a clean .gaim directory and setting up the Yahoo account, so
> I know it's not left over cruft from old Gaim versions.
> 
> I believe the root cause of this problem is that accounts are loaded
> before plugins, and hence there is no list of statuses available for
> Yahoo.  When it tries to get the status for 'online', a NULL is 
> returned, and this NULL is then used in the strcmp below.
> 
> This is the first time I've reported any issues with Gaim (I'm 
> playing with CVS because I've written a patch to maintain formatting 
> between messages within a single conversation, and I want to submit 
> it against a working CVS!) so please let me know if I'm going about 
> it the wrong way.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bron.
> 
>
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> 
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /usr/local/bin/gaim 
> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> [New Thread -1218255584 (LWP 16286)]
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> [Switching to Thread -1218255584 (LWP 16286)]
> yahoo_login (account=0x815f748, status=0x81ffbc0) at yahoo.c:2237
> 2237            if (!strcmp(id, YAHOO_STATUS_TYPE_AVAILABLE) ||
> !strcmp(id, YAHOO_STATUS_TYPE_ONLINE)) {
> (gdb) bt
> #0  yahoo_login (account=0x815f748, status=0x81ffbc0) at yahoo.c:2237
> #1  0x08096b67 in serv_login (account=0x815f748, status=0x81ffbc0)
>     at server.c:73
> #2  0x0806a9b7 in gaim_account_connect (account=0x815f748,
> status=0x81ffbc0)
>     at account.c:676
> #3  0x0806d2fe in gaim_accounts_auto_login (ui=0x810f42a "gtk-gaim")
>     at account.c:1573
> #4  0x080e4d1d in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffae4) at gtkmain.c:678
> -- 
>   Bron Gondwana
>   brong@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 
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