Comment 8 for bug 274799

This is not fixed but quite hard to reproduce. I am quite "lucky" to be able to reproduce it now quite consistently on my (mostly) 12.04 installation. I am using various packages from quantal, raring, saucy and I think even trusty because I need a lot of different updated texlive packages, but they have relatively few dependencies so they are probably not related (but you can notice that by the harmless Fontconfig warnings in the gdb log attached). I do have some glib packages apparently from quantal too, which might be related but certainly not the cause of my problems - I am very sure I saw this before quantal (probably even before precise) came out.

The problem with this bug is that it is very much depending on timing and/or external circumstances. There are many bug reports on other trackers, forums etc. and no one was able to reproduce it consistently. I have experienced the bug in different networks with different probabilities, i.e. it was obviously depending on the network connecting me to the internet and was consistently there on one network and perfectly fine on the other one just 30mins later with no changes whatsoever... repeatedly.

The attached log has 3 runs of xchat interrupted after it has entered the endless loop in question (look out for "Starting program: /usr/bin/xchat"). I have installed libglib2.0-0-dbg (2.34.0-1ubuntu1 from 12.10) after the first run and libgtk2.0-0-dbg (2.24.10-0ubuntu6 from 12.04) after the second run. With someone dares to look at this I am happy to provide more information if need be.