empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in ffi_call_SYSV()

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 >> lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu quantal (development branch)
Release: 12.10

 >> apt-cache policy empathy
empathy:
  Installed: 3.5.5-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.5.5-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.5.5-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

When responding to a message from a GMail account, the winow crashed and this error was reported.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: empathy 3.5.5-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-10.10-generic 3.5.1
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-10-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.4-0ubuntu8
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Aug 16 17:45:30 2012
Disassembly: => 0xb232d020: Cannot access memory at address 0xb232d020
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
ProcCmdline: empathy
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xb232d020: Cannot access memory at address 0xb232d020
 PC (0xb232d020) in non-executable VMA region: 0xb232d000-0xb2332000 r--p /home/j/.config/dconf/user
SegvReason: executing non-writable VMA /home/j/.config/dconf/user
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: empathy
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ffi_call_SYSV () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6
 ffi_call () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6
 g_cclosure_marshal_generic_va () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in ffi_call_SYSV()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-08-16 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ffi_call_SYSV () at ../src/x86/sysv.S:64
 ffi_call (cif=cif@entry=0xbfe56424, fn=fn@entry=0x8065ac0 <event_activated_cb>, rvalue=0xbfe56390, avalue=avalue@entry=0xbfe56350) at ../src/x86/ffi.c:413
 g_cclosure_marshal_generic_va (closure=closure@entry=0x8a4fca8, return_value=return_value@entry=0x0, instance=instance@entry=0x8a54018, args_list=args_list@entry=0xbfe566bc "Pt\263\b\300\070\305\b\240\350l\267\070\357\236\b\243\001\241\266\330\362\265\bP", marshal_data=marshal_data@entry=0x0, n_params=n_params@entry=2, param_types=param_types@entry=0x89b76c8) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.33.8/./gobject/gclosure.c:1550
 _g_closure_invoke_va (closure=0x8a4fca8, return_value=return_value@entry=0x0, instance=instance@entry=0x8a54018, args=args@entry=0xbfe566bc "Pt\263\b\300\070\305\b\240\350l\267\070\357\236\b\243\001\241\266\330\362\265\bP", n_params=2, param_types=0x89b76c8) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.33.8/./gobject/gclosure.c:840

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Angel Araya (arayaq)]

When closing the contact list window trought the X button.

[Guillaume Desmottes (cassidy)]

Fixed in Empathy 3.6.0.2

[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