Pidgin version 2.14.8 freezes when creating long message or resizing window

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

I have the same version as above and the same issue. Its interesting because if I type out a really long comment in gedit first and copy and paste it into the chat field it will take that text just fine. The problem only happens (to me) when I'm typing out a message in the chat window itself and as described above, the window needs to be resized to fit. If I use Shift Enter before I get to the end of the line that causes the resize (and the program to subsequently freeze) the chat entry box will expand normally and I'll be able to continue typing, but I often forget to do that and end up killing the program.

Log entries from the time of the last crash attached.

I have to modify my last comment after some months of dealing with this issue. Adding extra lines does not always mitigate this problem for me under Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS using pidgin 2.14.8.

Confirming that building with upstream changes
https://reviews.imfreedom.org/r/1342/diff/10/
which are marked fixing upstream BUG
https://issues.imfreedom.org/issue/PIDGIN-17413
pidgin has not crashed for a few weeks.

I have cherry-picked the patch into https://launchpad.net/~juliank/+archive/ubuntu/pidgin and plan to upload it pending validation.

Uploaded (yesterday already)

Hello Paul, or anyone else affected,

Accepted pidgin into jammy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/1:2.14.8-1ubuntu2.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-jammy to verification-done-jammy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-jammy. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Grah, why did you version it the same as the one I used for my own build - I fully expected it to become ubuntu3, not ubuntu2.1 ;P (apt kept trying to reinstall the official one with the unmodified version ...).

I hope I correctly "upgraded" to the proposed version, will report back if I find it doesn't work for me (though I have been running with the same fix for months now without any issues).

Thanks for taking care of it!

Thanks, seems to work. Unsurprisingly so: your binary is almost identical to my local build.

@kanjimonster You can append a distinct suffix for your local builds using this dch option:
<email address hidden> dch --local="+test" "my commit message"
You can verify how your build compares to ubuntu versions using this dpkg option:
dpkg --compare-versions oldversion+local1 ge oldversion.1 && echo "greater or equal"

The verification of the Stable Release Update for pidgin has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

This bug was fixed in the package pidgin - 1:2.14.8-1ubuntu2.1

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pidgin (1:2.14.8-1ubuntu2.1) jammy; urgency=medium

  * Fix freezes when creating long message or resizing window (LP: #1975519)

 -- Julian Andres Klode <email address hidden> Tue, 11 Jul 2023 18:56:57 +0200