empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in g_slist_remove()

[Kody Ivan McCarthy]

Facebook friend's icon flashed between online icon and new message icon. Attempted to open the chat, empathy crashed. Facebook does not show any new messages.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: empathy 3.5.4.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-7.7-generic 3.5.0
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-7-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.4-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Aug 4 21:30:37 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120803.1)
ProcCmdline: empathy
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f99e66e7f79 <g_slist_remove+9>: cmp %rsi,(%rdi)
 PC (0x7f99e66e7f79) ok
 source "%rsi" ok
 destination "(%rdi)" (0x1006f00000001) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: empathy
StacktraceTop:
 g_slist_remove () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? ()
 ffi_call_unix64 () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6
 ffi_call () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6
 g_cclosure_marshal_generic_va () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in g_slist_remove()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
XsessionErrors:
 gnome-session[1810]: WARNING: Failed to start app: Unable to start application: Failed to execute child process "dropbox" (No such file or directory)
 (compiz:1891): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_client_add_dir: assertion `gconf_valid_key (dirname, NULL)' failed
 (empathy:3258): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkMenuBar 0x26253e0 is mapped but visible=1 child_visible=1 parent EmpathyRosterWindow 0x258c000 mapped=0

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 g_slist_remove (list=0x1006f00000001, data=data@entry=0x1842e10) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.33.6/./glib/gslist.c:418
 event_remove (event=0x1842e10) at empathy-event-manager.c:191
 ffi_call_unix64 () at ../src/x86/unix64.S:75
 ffi_call (cif=cif@entry=0x7fff2f0d6670, fn=fn@entry=0x421e00 <event_activated_cb>, rvalue=0x7fff2f0d65a0, avalue=avalue@entry=0x7fff2f0d6540) at ../src/x86/ffi64.c:492
 g_cclosure_marshal_generic_va (closure=0xa623b0, return_value=0x0, instance=0x8fa070, args_list=<optimized out>, marshal_data=0x421e00, n_params=2, param_types=0xa3ea20) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.33.6/./gobject/gclosure.c:1550

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package empathy - 3.6.0.2-0ubuntu1

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empathy (3.6.0.2-0ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low

  * New upstream bug fix release:
    - empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in ffi_call_SYSV() (LP: #1037810)
    - empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in event_remove() (LP: #1031006)
    - empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in g_slist_remove() (LP: #1033099)
    - mission-control-5 crashed with SIGABRT in g_assertion_message()
      (LP: #1059233)
    - private-chat-$UUID rooms are created with default (i.e. public) settings
      (LP: #1055128)
  * Removed: debian/patches/44_sendto-link-libempathy.patch,
    debian/patches/50_uoa_no_crash_database.patch:
    - in upstream release
  * debian/patches/42_shell_running.patch: refreshed
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Mon, 08 Oct 2012 13:12:32 +0200