On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 19:53 -0500, Jonathan Guthrie wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 12:04:17AM +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > > > If this still is a problem, can you try version 0.16 from the > > experimental archive? > > http://packages.debian.org/experimental/gnome/xchat-gnome > > First off, I have to make a confession. I didn't actually think that > this was a problem with xchat-gnome. Well, no program should crash > without leaving sufficient diagnostics to fix whatever the problem is, > but that's a minor thing if it's crashing due to some vital component > that was expected to be there, but which actually wasn't. I was hoping > that you knew of a problem with whatever the real problem was and would > forward the issue to the place it should actually go because I had no > idea where that was and I felt strongly that I should report the problem > to somebody or it would get lost in the shuffle. > > After much hair-tearing and unpleasantness, I discovered that the issue > actually is in the dbus system, which is sometimes failing to start at > boot time for whatever reason. Fortunately, boot time stuff doesn't > need to happen very often on this system.
You should probably file a separate bug about this for the dbus package. > I haven't duplicated the issue in a while. Not since I figured out how > to prevent xchat from crashing. If you'd like, I can set up what I > believe the conditions are and see if it crashes again so that we can > test with the new version. It's up to you and how much importance you > give to the problem. I'm willing to put a couple of days into it, if > that's what you need, not that I think it will take that long. I made a quick attempt with xchat-gnome 0.16, trying to start it with dbus disabled, and I haven't been able to reproduce your problem. I would certainly appreciate it if you could give it a shot with 0.16. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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