yagirc

[Spauldo da Hippie Elf <spauldo geocities com>]

This might be the wrong place for this.  If so, flame me or something.

Whilst running yagirc for the first time, I connected to irc.linpeople.org
(the place to be!) and was chatting along about mail clients or somesuch,
when yagirc suddenly died.  This was left on the terminal where I ran X:

 Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkwidget.c: line 1346 (gtk_widget_destroy):
 assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed.
 Gdk-Message:
 ** ERROR **: sigsegv caught

I then ran yagirc from gdb.  I got this when I tried to connect:

 (gdb) file yagirc
 Reading symbols from yagirc...done.
 (gdb) run
 Starting program: /opt/gnome/bin/yagirc

 Program received signal SIGUSR1, User defined signal 1.
 0x402f11d4 in __syscall_sigsuspend ()

The connect button stayed pressed, and the window did nothing.  I dunno if
this is a normal feature of gdb or not, since I know beans about it.  Just
thought I'd mention it.

Then came:

 (gdb) continue
 Continuing.

And it worked OK for a while.  Sent a file through dcc, everything went
pretty normal.  Nice chat for about 20 minutes or so, but I don't live for
IRC these days, so I got tired and quit.

When I typed /quit bah..., I got this:

 Program received signal SIGUSR1, User defined signal 1.
 0x402f11d4 in __syscall_sigsuspend ()
 (gdb) continue
 Continuing.

 Program exited normally.
 (gdb)

I dunno how to backtrace or anything, but since it didn't crash, I didn't
try to find out either.

Hope this helps whoever writes yagirc, or someone who is interested in
fixing it (I would, but alas, I cannot code...  perhaps I can create new
icons for the buttons or something.  BTW, a font selector would be a nice
addition, for the people who hang out in ascii-art channels and stuff...  
variable-width fonts seem a bit mIRCish to me, for some reason...)

Spauldo

"Yeah, I used to be into necrophelia, bestiality and sadism, but then I
realized I was just flogging a dead horse."