[Wocky] MSN crash due to server behavior change
Greg Hudson
ghudson at MIT.EDU
Fri Aug 25 10:28:51 EDT 2006
Today a consultant reported seeing Gaim crash under Solaris. A
backtrace revealed that it was trying to connect to an MSN account,
didn't get the fields it expected from the server, and didn't do
enough error-checking to avoid a crash under those circumstances. A
little net research turned up this:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1554621&forum_id=665
The Gaim developers have released a fix to 2.0.0 beta 3 to fix the
problem, but not to the stable 1.5 branch.
This problem may affect Adium as well.
I don't know how widespread the use of MSN is with Gaim or Adium at
MIT, but if we receive a substantial number of complaints, we may want
to backport the upstream fix to 1.5 and release it. For now, the
workaround is to disable your MSN account and use a different client
if you need to connect to MSN.
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