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August 14, 2007 - 9:53am
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mwaldron
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New Pidgin Crash

This morning I updated from the preview version (which was in turn updated from GAIM) to the newly released Pidgin. I also added the encryption plugins.

Everything worked ok for about an hour, then pidgin unexpectedly froze. I terminated it and then restarted it, and 5 seconds after the chat dialog boxes returned (I have it configured for 3 IRC channels in tabs via SSL) it froze again.

Further investigation has determined that as soon as I start pidgin it starts grabbing memory and pegging 1 core of my cpu until it grabs approximately 1200MB at which time windows kills the process.

I'm going to try a new installation, but I thought I would report the issue here as well.

-Mike

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August 14, 2007 - 10:02am
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Could you test

whether the same happens with a local install?
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August 14, 2007 - 10:16am
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I tried it with a completely

I tried it with a completely clean install (rebooted, deleted folder, reinstalled from paf) and same result.

This is really strange. The Pidgin pooped and I can't seem to clean it up.

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August 14, 2007 - 10:20am
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Local Install

He meant a local install of the standard version. That would enable us to determine whether it is the PC or not.

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August 14, 2007 - 10:25am
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I reverted to GAIM 2.0.0b5

I reverted to GAIM 2.0.0b5 from a zipped archive before I updated to Pidgin preview. That got me back online, and I asked a friend of mine who uses pidgin and he says he's seen this behavior with the non-portable version but for him it was intermittent.

The interesting thing is that the version used in the previous 'preview' portable app seems to have worked fine.

...Still investigating...

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August 15, 2007 - 1:54am
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I had the same problem

I fixed it by disabling all the plugins. I turned on a lot of plugins to try them out but I turned them all off and it is working for me now. I might try to add one or two plugins at a time to determine which one is causing the problem.

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August 15, 2007 - 1:56am
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Keep us updated

If you determine which one it is, please let us know and I'll investigate further. I'll try out some possibilities tomorrow, too.

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August 15, 2007 - 2:17pm
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I don't have any plugins

I don't have any plugins other than the 2 security downloads from the Pidgeon portable homepage.

I reverted the the preview release, and so far it's running fine.

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