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Gustavo

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2006-07-04

Posts: 92

Gaim crashes if a buddy has an avatar

Hello,

If I open a conversation window and my friend has an avatar set, gaim crashes. I can talk normally with people who doesn't use an avatar. The output:

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The program 'gaim' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
  (Details: serial 7529 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

This morning everything was working fine. How can I fix this?

Thanks,

Gustavo

hightower

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Registered: 2006-04-02

Posts: 182

Re: Gaim crashes if a buddy has an avatar

What version of gaim are you using?
Have you made any package upgrades?

hightower

Gustavo

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2006-07-04

Posts: 92

Re: Gaim crashes if a buddy has an avatar

Gaim-svn. I have an up to date system with all repos enabled. This didn't start after a upgrade.

Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

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Re: Gaim crashes if a buddy has an avatar

I had the same problem, with MSN. I went to preferences and disabled 'show buddy icon'. I'm assuming it will be fixed in an upcoming gaim-svn release.

Dusty

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harlekin

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-07-13

Posts: 408

Re: Gaim crashes if a buddy has an avatar

The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.

Doesn't this mean you don't have enough free memory?

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Gustavo

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2006-07-04

Posts: 92

Re: Gaim crashes if a buddy has an avatar

I guess not:

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          1011        836        174          0         91        599
-/+ buffers/cache:        145        865
Swap:          596          0        596

Gustavo

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2006-07-04

Posts: 92

Re: Gaim crashes if a buddy has an avatar

I had the same problem, with MSN. I went to preferences and disabled 'show buddy icon'. I'm assuming it will be fixed in an upcoming gaim-svn release.

Dusty

You were right, the last update fixed it.