A couple of months ago we deployed Pidgin on all workstations for our internal Instant Messaging needs. All seemed well until on a few workstations random crashes occurred (multiple times per day!). There was no recognisable pattern for the crashes, and, as you can imagine, big frustrations amongst those who were affected.<\/p>\n
A while ago I stumbled on Pidgin bug report 5662<\/a> and thought that might be the bug we were encountering – but there were no efforts going on to fix the issue. It turned out to actually be GTK-on-Windows’ fault<\/a> (thanks to David Grohmann for the analysis and bringing it to the attention of the GTK developers).<\/p>\n Now, “only” eight months after the bug had been reported, the issue has been fixed in GTK. The crashes on those workstations disappeared after bringing the new Pango libraries into place<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A couple of months ago we deployed Pidgin on all workstations for our internal Instant Messaging needs. All seemed well until on a few workstations random crashes occurred (multiple times per day!). There was no recognisable pattern for the crashes, and, as you can imagine, big frustrations amongst those who were affected. A while ago … Continue reading “Random Pidgin (on Windows) crashes finally resolved”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annoying-bugs","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}