Pidgin does not seem to work with upgrading Fedora 33 to Fedora 34. I tried to build it from source but ran into dependency issues that did not seem worth it. Does anyone else have this problem?
When you get such a message there is a link to “more details”, and that is what says what the problem is. Please past this “more details” as </> preformated thext.
I don’t see a bug yet that looks linked to this issue yet:
It may be worth creating a new user to see if Pidgin works there in case some user configs changed in the new versions installed by the upgrade.
Ankur,
Thanks I will give this a try.
Update: It failed even with a brand new user.
I couldn’t copy “more details” to formatted text except line by line, so I just took a screenshot:
I installed from flatpak and the problem seems to be solved.
I know it doesn’t help you much, but pidgin seems to work fine for me after upgrading to Fedora 34. Btw, I also have one of those error messages from your screenshot, but not the segfault:
$ pidgin
Gtk-Message: 19:34:20.240: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 19:34:20.240: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module"
MESA-INTEL: warning: Performance support disabled, consider sysctl dev.i915.perf_stream_paranoid=0
However I don’t have your “Couldn’t create plugins dir” message, so maybe there’s an issue with permissions or SELinux context?
@fasulia Thank you for the suggestions. I tried turning SELinux off but this did not solve the problem. I even tried a fresh install of Fedora 34 since I was having other issues and it still crashes.
Do you have abrt installed? It should try to report a bug for the crash on your behalf.
Maybe just check for the existence of ~/.purple
and ~/.purple/plugins
, and their permissions and SELinux context with ls -laZ
.
I tried “setenforce 0” then running pidgin. It still gives the same crash so it does not seem to be SELinux.
.purple and .purple/plugins both exist with 700 permissions and user/group set to my username.
I did use ABRT to submit a bug report. It is now Bug 1955381 on bugzilla.
Someone else seems to have the same issue: https://issues.imfreedom.org/issue/PIDGIN-17521
If I run “pidgin” from command line, it does not help to say why there is a crash:
Are you using Wayland? I’m on Xorg. A comment in that bug report suggested this could be relevant.
You could also try contacting pidgin developers on IRC as they’re pretty responsive.
Yes it is Wayland. It seems Wayland is the source of the problem now (pidgin works with X11). Also Wayland seems to have been causing Fedora to hang when I switch users. I have switched back to X11 and everything is fine now. Thanks all.
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