Pidgin crashes in HF5

[kc187]

Hey guys.


Flashed to HF5 and everything is running great, except for pidgin.


I downloaded the PND from the wiki, and it constantly zombies out on me and I have to kill the process.


Is there a fix for this, or am I going to have to downgrade to HF4?


Thanks in advance.

 

[kloplop321]

There is a confirmed memory leak in pidgin, the newest one from sebt doesn't have it as bad, there's not much we can do.


We need an updated glib and a few other things to get a current version of empathy to be a functional drop in replacement, which probably wont happen soon

 

[kc187]

There is a confirmed memory leak in pidgin, the newest one from sebt doesn't have it as bad, there's not much we can do.


We need an updated glib and a few other things to get a current version of empathy to be a functional drop in replacement, which probably wont happen soon

Ok, thanks for the info.


Is there an alternative so I can use MSN messenger, or any suggestions?


I had it running acceptably in HF4, so maybe I will downgrade. I use my Pandora a lot for web-based comms, so that is kind of important to me.


Thanks again.

 

[Silent-Hunter]

Someone should request that OPT put Pidgin back in the firmware, exactly like it was. It worked fine then. Maybe there's a manual way to put it back?

 

[Silent-Hunter]

There is a confirmed memory leak in pidgin, the newest one from sebt doesn't have it as bad, there's not much we can do.


We need an updated glib and a few other things to get a current version of empathy to be a functional drop in replacement, which probably wont happen soon

But Pidgin worked fine in HF4. And on my laptop with Fedora 13.

 

[sabrecheeky]

I have always had random freezes with Pidgin, with HF4 (built in) and HF5 (.pnd) on my Pandora. I suppose I have just accepted it as one of the little quirks you learn to live with!


If it helps find the bug, I use a yahoo IM account, as do my contacts. The freezes happen probably about 2-3 times per hour, and I have to shut down Pidgin altogether and restart it. I cannot give focus to the message window, and the mouse pointer disappears when over it. The freezes seem to occur most often when I use backspace, or on pressing enter to send a message (the recipient gets the message, but my message window does not update). The freezes do not seem to be any less or more frequent since HF5.


Hope this helps.