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Pidgin crashed Openbox

Why whenever I close Pidgin in the latest version of SliTaz cooking it crashes openbox? Restarting Openbox does nothing and I have to logout and then log back in.

*Please Note I reported this a month ago and had no response, this only happens when I'm using one of the pidgin plugins*

Trixar_za

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 1,506

Re: Pidgin crashed Openbox

Helps if you say which pidgin plugin and paste the error you get after you've run pidgin from the terminal. Pasting uname -a might also be helpful since it gives us an idea which cooking version your using.

I also don't see a bug report for this @ http://bugs.slitaz.org/

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Re: Pidgin crashed Openbox

This happens with ANY plugin I use. I receive no error report my panels simply disappear but as far as I know are still running. I can use the terminal to restart pidgin but can't actually use it as it normally opens iconified to the panel.

uname -a:

Linux kris-slitaz 2.6.37-slitaz #2 SMP Tue Jun 14 19:11:34 CEST 2011 i686 GNU/Linux

It's the latest cooking version I think it was 31st May?

Trixar_za

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 1,506

Re: Pidgin crashed Openbox

The Panel is either lxpanel or tint2 depending on which one your using. If it's Openbox that's crashing, you won't have Window decorations anymore nor be able to access the right click menu (if not overridden by pcmanfm). Anyway, this narrows dow the potential culprits.

This means you'll have to open a terminal window (sakura or xterm) and start pidgin (use pidgin &) in there, then just do what crashes pidgin. It might throw an error as to what is causing the crash or might not. If it does, just copy down the error and paste it here. If it doesn't give an error, then it's the panel's fault. You'll have to type lxpanel & in the terminal window and then start pidgin again (with pidgin & like before). Now crash it again. That will most likely give you an error. So copy it down and paste it here. Once we know what's causing either of the two to crash, we can start tracking down how to fix it.

My best guess? It's probably a missing dependency. So check that libnotify, pidgin-libnotify and libsexy is installed. If not, install them. That's the only thing that occurs to me that can kill both a panel and pidgin like that.