Yahoo Messenger Segmenation Fault

Crashed_Again · 03-10-2003, 05:32 PM

Okay folks heres the story. I went away for the weekend leaving my trusty linux machine on the desktop so that my girlfriend and her sister could do there web brosing and such. All hell broke loose! Long story short, I need to install yahoo messenger so that they don't use windows anymore. I installed the correct rpm packages and when I run Yahoo messenger and try to do something, like click on preferences, it crashes. The error message is this:

Gdk-CRITICAL **: file gdkfont.c: line 239 (gdk_font_ref): assertion `font != NULL' failed.

Gdk-CRITICAL **: file gdkfont.c: line 337 (gdk_string_width): assertion `font != NULL' failed.

Gdk-CRITICAL **: file gdkfont.c: line 413 (gdk_text_width_wc): assertion `font != NULL' failed.
Segmentation fault

I need to get this working or else I'm liable to find Windows booted on my machine again. Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Please help!

Zerodark · 03-10-2003, 05:35 PM

i had that problem too,....i don't know what it was, so i just stopped using yahoo and switched over to aim.

Q*Bert · 03-10-2003, 05:38 PM

Crashed_Again, please stop using that awful program!

Use GAIM instead - it supports multiple protocols (MSN MEssenger, yahoo, ICQ etc.) seamlessly and is probably far more reliable.

It doesn't have the same video/audio conferencing as Yahoo Messenger though. If the LInux version has that.

Crashed_Again · 03-10-2003, 06:27 PM

Q*Bert can you believe I totally forgot that GAIM has a plugin for Yahoo messenger? I use GAIM everyday for AIM and I totally forgot. Case closed:

rpm -e ymessenger

Thanks a lot!

lysis · 04-28-2003, 04:41 PM

I've had problems with the yahoo plugin for gaim and my proxy (gaim says it can connect to scs.yahoo.com). Any comment will be really helpful

Paragm · 05-06-2003, 12:59 AM

Even I am facing the same problem,

I have Redhat 9 installed, ymessenger crashes when preferences is clicked

Any solution for this ??

Q*Bert · 05-06-2003, 05:51 AM

lysis, are you using the latest version of GAIM? Have a look at http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ for details or download the latest copy from there. BTW, the messenger servers are not up 100% of the time - scs.yahoo.com works for me right now.

Paragm, did you read the thread you've just added to or did you just read the title and post?

ckamheng · 05-06-2003, 06:13 AM

Please install the latest version of gaim which is gaim-0.62.
Everything will be fine.
Trust me please.

Thanks.