Gaim Crashes

[skaterkid]

I am using SUSE Linux 10.1 and for some reason every time I run Gaim Chat and try to login with MSN protocol as soon as I get into my account it crashes. I ran it from my terminal and got this error:

*** glibc detected *** gaim: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0x803ae418 ***
======= Backtrace: =========

it than goes on to list everything that was executed before the crash. How can I fix this problem?

[antidrugue]

Perhaps you could verify that the port MSN uses (port 1863) is not blocked by your firewall.

[skaterkid]

I don't think that its my firewall, it lets me log in and I see my contacts and who's online it only crashes moments later. Is there a way to remove Gaim and reinstall it?

[valemon]

You can use kopete. Better in my opinion, I too experienced crashes with Gaim.

[skaterkid]

so if I wont need Gaim any more how can I uninstall it?(sorry first time Linux user) And dose Kopete come with the KDE software package? Is it possible to install Kopete on my Gnome desktop without downloading it?

[valemon]

You can install/uninstall packages using YaST. You can check here for extra repositories.
Anyway go to YaST type your root password->software->software management
There you can search and find the packages you want.