From: Markus Hennecke (markus-henneckemarkus-hennecke.de)
Date: Wed Jan 02 2008 - 07:54:33 CST

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On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Simon Kuhnle wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 02:08:02PM +0100, Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 02:02:23PM +0100, Simon Kuhnle wrote:
>>> On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 10:10:59PM +0100, Markus Hennecke wrote:
>>>> Description: Console Jabber client.
>>>> Homepage: http://www.lilotux.net/~mikael/mcabber/
>>>>
>>>> Comments and tests appreciated. Working on i386 and amd64. I had a report
>>>> about segfaults on a snapshot from 6th december (i386), but could not
>>>> reproduce that. 4.2-stable definetly won't work.
>>>
>>> Works for me on i386 now. Chatted and tested PPG encryption,
>>> both worked without problems.
>>>
>>> On amd64 it coredumps when there's a ~/.mcabberrc file.
>>>
>>> Without it, it starts up fine, but gives me the following message:
>>> [14:00:27]*Error: cannot convert string to locale.
>>>
>>> Here's the backtrace when started with .mcabberrc file:
>> can you move the mcabber file to ~/.mcabber/mcabberrc and try again?
>> i can use mcabber fine here on amd64 with the file in that location.
>
> Still doesn't work here.
>
> There are is no locales stuff in my environment and it can't be
> GNU/screen, as it doesn't work on normal shell either.

There is some problem with the from_utf8 macro which calls
g_convert_with_fallback(). The error you are seeing is exactly the one I
see on a 4.2-stable installation with this port, so perhaps I can track
this down. I wonder why some installations trigger this and some don't.

Best regards,
   Markus

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