[Pidgin] #5668: Arbitrary crashes under win32

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#5668: Arbitrary crashes under win32
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Reporter:  davydm  |       Owner:  lschiere    
    Type:  defect  |      Status:  new         
Priority:  minor   |   Component:  unclassified
 Version:  2.4.1   |    Keywords:              
 Pending:  0       |  
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 Good day

 I've had a recurrent problem with pidgin, under win32, where pidgin
 (seemingly) arbitrarily crashes out every now and then. I've tried
 different versions (2.3.1, 2.4.0, 2.4.1), and the same thing happens. I
 have checked against filed bugs, but so far the crashes that I've come
 across there all seem to be triggerable -- this just seems to happen on a
 semi-random basis (up to 5 times a day, but as little as once in two
 days). Most of the time (IIRC), when it occurs, I see that the pidgin icon
 in the systray is showing that I have unread messages. Every time, I don't
 have pidgin focused, and I'm not actually using it actively.

 I don't know if this is related to the fact that I have VirtuaWin running
 (it is the only "exotic" piece of software running on my system) -- but I
 come from a Linux world, and the concept of not having virtual desktops
 would make my work day a lot more difficult. Also, there are no other apps
 which are behaving in this way -- even the latest GIMP seems to be stable
 (so I don't know if that helps with pinning the blame on GTK or on
 something within Pidgin itself)

 If there is more information that I can furnish, please let me know. I
 will gladly help wherever I can with resolving this issue. I love pidgin
 (having tried pretty-much every other multi-protocol IM client out there).
 I use pidgin for MSN and Google Talk on this machine.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/5668>
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