This problem started up a few weeks back. Before that I never had an issue. I am running Ubuntu 11.04 Natty. The weird thing about it is there is only one contact on my list who causes the freeze and of course he is the one person I really need to speak to over Spark. I think it may have to do with the fact that we had a conversation when things were working which involved a large field of text being pasted into the IM and then sent to me but I can access old chat logs in Spark and there is no problem; freeze only occurs when I actually try to chat. It doesn’t matter if I IM him or he IMs me, either way it will freeze. Once the original Spark is frozen I can open another instance of Spark and chat normally but if I chat with him it will freeze again. Only way to get them all to shut down once frozen is the restart my entire machine. Any ideas? I am using a netbook with about 1gig of ram so it might be a ram over flow issue but I don’t know. I already unistanlled Spark and started running it again but because it doesn’t use an actual installed, I just run of the binaries, all of the user data was saved where ever it is cached so if it is because of a large IM and a ram issue I have no way to clear it.
Any ideas? Where would the local user history be saved? Is there a way to turn off the auto save feature and clear the cache inside Spark? Any help with be greatly appreciated.