yahoo crashing kopete at sign on

[Mark Greenwood]

On Wednesday 03 Mar 2010 18:55:46 Josh Stephenson wrote:
> Is anybody aware of an issue with yahoo accounts causing kopete to crash on 
> sign in? I've had the issue since going to 4.4.  At first I just noticed that 
> kopete was crashing on sign in ad after disabling and re-enabling all my 
> accounts I relaized it was just yahoo causing the issue.  Sometimes it signs 
> in fine for little while.  One time I realized that the yahoo avatar was set 
> differently than the main kopete avatar... when I fixed it the crash was gone 
> for a little while.  Another time I signed into web messenger and then signed 
> back out again and this too seemed top fix the kopete issue for a bit. None of 
> these fixes work for more than one or two sign ins though.  I have debug 
> packages installed getting literally no info from the crash reporter on crash.
> 

Working fine for me here (Kopete 1.0.0, KDE 4.4.0).

Frequently with Kopete a crash is something to do with one of your contacts. I've noticed some things in the past, often related to using avatars, where Kopete would crash if one of my contacts was using a web-based sign in. There was definitely a bug like this in the msn client in kopete - that is fixed now but I wonder if something similar is happening for yahoo? Might be worth keeping an eye on which of your contacts are signed in when the crash happens.

Mark