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This should fix another crash I've seen. We weren't correctly cancelling the proxy connect when we destroyed the servconn because we were only calling msn_servconn_disconnect() if we had actually connected. So always call msn_servconn_disconnect() from msn_servconn_destroy() and let the disconnect function deal with only closing stuff that is actually open. Here's the backtrace: #0 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () #1 0x00000000005f95e0 in connect_cb (data=0x2ab92ef6e7b0, source=7, error_message=0x0) at servconn.c:185 #2 0x000000000056e7da in purple_proxy_connect_data_connected (connect_data=0x2ab92ef70260) at proxy.c:598 #3 0x000000000056e90d in socket_ready_cb (data=0x2ab92ef70260, source=7, cond=PURPLE_INPUT_WRITE) at proxy.c:657 #4 0x00000000004db70c in pidgin_io_invoke (source=0x2ab92ee4be50, condition=G_IO_OUT, data=0x2ab92dfd3130) at gtkeventloop.cc:79 In frame 1, servconn is not valid (it has already been freed)

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