My daughter uses amsn to connect to msn. After doing a fresh installation of slackware 11.0 we are unable to use amsn. It seems to log in but as soon as the chat page comes up the program closes.

She has been able to connect to msn using gaim.

Hi there arubin.

I am running aMSN and can confirm it does work with Slack 11. It could be you're missing a library. Try loading up a terminal and type amsn and return to see what (if any) errors are generated.

Simon

I've experienced the same problem with aMSN lately, I use cvs version so I expect problems, check amsn's forum, maybe you can spot something there. I'm in the middle of 10.2 and 11.0

I tried it from the command line. It showed the chat screen for a few seconds before crashing.

alan@LavanKossot:~$ amsn

Input Filename : /usr/share/amsn/skins/default/sounds/newemail.wav
Sample Size : 16-bits
Sample Encoding: signed (2's complement)
Channels : 1
Sample Rate : 11025

Time: 00:02.69 [00:00.00] of 00:02.69 ( 100.0%) Output Buffer: 129.02K

Done.
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*** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x09277ab0 ***
Aborted

Curiously I have tried it again and it appears to be working.

That crash happens every now and then and I've not found any proper solution, the only workaround that has worked to me is to shutdown amsn, erase amsn's images cache and launch it back. It's not a version or svn problem and it has been doing it on me since several months and it doesn't get fixed up on new svn releases. Looks like a problem with libpng corruping avatars' cache.

To put it down more simple, erase these cache folders:

~/.amsn/<your_user_mail>/displaypic/cache/
~/.amsn/<your_user_mail>/smileys/cache/

Plese let us know if that worked for you too.

Hmm, I haven't seen this before. Please try the latest cvs version. Just grab it from the amsn page, untar, do ./configure && make and you can then run the amsn script in the same directory. Try with that and see if it works.

There's also the small possibility that there's a png bug triggered by certain images. I'm not sure if the libpng in the message is the one coming in the utils/TkCximage/src/png/ subdirectory.