[Bug 77590] gaim crashes on signoff when resuming from hibernate

[Malek Ghantous]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: gaim

Running on ubuntu and kubuntu dapper.

Similar to bug #64809, but in my case signoff crashes the application, requiring a force quit.  What I think causes the different behaviour is whether or not the network connection is the same.  The problem is essentially this:
If I'm at uni - with a fixed ip address - with gaim running, and then put my laptop into hibernation and come back the next day without using the laptop in between, the signoff-signon procedure works.  If, however, I then go home and use it signing off crashes gaim and I need to force quit it.  It used to be that if I used the laptop at home in consecutive sessions (with a hibernation in between) that I had no problem, but this afternoon the problem did appear.  This could be because my router assigned a different ip address this time, or perhaps because I recently installed laptop-net.  Either way it seem to have something to do with changing ip address.  laptop-net will, of course, automatically disconnect and reconnect the ethernet link on bootup/resume, while ubuntu doesn't necessarily do this requiring a "$sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart" command to get connected.

Incidentally, I use both msn and gmail messaging.

** Affects: gaim (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: gaim
  
  Running on ubuntu and kubuntu dapper.
  
- Similar to bug #64809, but in my case signoff crashes the application,
- requiring a force quit.  What I think causes the different behaviour is
- whether or not the network connection is the same.  If I'm at uni, with
- a fixed ip address, and come back the next day without using the laptop
- in between, the signoff-signon procedure works.  If, however, I then go
- home and use it signing off crashes gaim and I need to force quit it.
- It used to be that if I used the laptop at home in consecutive sessions
- that I had no problem, but this last time the problem appeared.  This
- could be because my router assigned a different ip address this time, or
- perhaps because I recently installed laptop-net.  Either way it has
- something to do with changing ip address.  laptop-net will, of course,
- automatically disconnect and reconnect the ethernet link on
- bootup/resume, while ubuntu doesn't necessarily do this requiring a
- "$sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart" command to get connected.
+ Similar to bug #64809, but in my case signoff crashes the application, requiring a force quit.  What I think causes the different behaviour is whether or not the network connection is the same.  The problem is essentially this:
+ If I'm at uni - with a fixed ip address - with gaim running, and then put my laptop into hibernation and come back the next day without using the laptop in between, the signoff-signon procedure works.  If, however, I then go home and use it signing off crashes gaim and I need to force quit it.  It used to be that if I used the laptop at home in consecutive sessions (with a hibernation in between) that I had no problem, but this afternoon the problem did appear.  This could be because my router assigned a different ip address this time, or perhaps because I recently installed laptop-net.  Either way it seem to have something to do with changing ip address.  laptop-net will, of course, automatically disconnect and reconnect the ethernet link on bootup/resume, while ubuntu doesn't necessarily do this requiring a "$sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart" command to get connected.
+ 
+ Incidentally, I use both msn and gmail messaging.

** Tags added: crash gaim hibernate resume signoff

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gaim crashes on signoff when resuming from hibernate
https://launchpad.net/bugs/77590