Evan Martin (evan) wrote in evan_tech,
Evan Martin
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gaim :(

I've been running Gaim (1.5.0) just to play with the internal chatting, so I tried connecting it to the talk server. (It's especially fun to see Gaim screenshots on the help pages.)

But it caused me to remember why I don't normally run Gaim: it's already crashed. I don't know if it's just 'cause IM is fundamentally hard or the Gaim team is too fragmented or whatever -- in this particular case, more likely that the Jabber plugin is buggy -- but I've always been a little disappointed by using Gaim. (Like: what's with all the useless buttons on the chat windows?)

#0  0x407930d4 in __pthread_sigsuspend () from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0
#1  0x40792708 in __pthread_wait_for_restart_signal ()
   from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0
#2  0x40794720 in __pthread_alt_lock () from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0
#3  0x4079114e in pthread_mutex_lock () from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0
#4  0x405efde3 in free () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#5  0x40609ae5 in tzset_internal () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#6  0x4060a52b in tzset () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#7  0x4060ef3e in strftime_l () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#8  0x4064f759 in vsyslog () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#9  0x405e924a in __libc_message () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#10 0x405ef9df in _int_free () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#11 0x405efd86 in free () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#12 0x403bb0c2 in g_free () from /garnome/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#13 0x40b4e81a in jabber_register_start () from /usr/lib/gaim/libjabber.so
#14 0x080921f0 in serv_close ()
#15 0x080747a5 in gaim_connection_disconnect ()
#16 0x080748c1 in gaim_connection_disconnect_cb ()
#17 0x403b7dd3 in g_timeout_dispatch () from /garnome/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#18 0x403b5683 in g_main_dispatch () from /garnome/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#19 0x403b66dd in g_main_context_dispatch () from /garnome/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#20 0x403b6a07 in g_main_context_iterate () from /garnome/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#21 0x403b6fe2 in g_main_loop_run () from /garnome/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
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