Empathy crashed after I tried to add an avatar (MSN-haze account)

[Miguel Ruiz]

Binary package hint: empathy

I tried to add an avatar with my MSN account and suddenly Emphaty crashed.

I'm using Ubuntu Hardy Heron up to date.

Related stuff:

ii empathy 0.22.1-1ubuntu1 High-level library and user-interface for Te
ii libempathy-common 0.22.1-1ubuntu1 High-level library and user-interface for Te
ii libempathy-gtk-common 0.22.1-1ubuntu1 High-level library and user-interface for Te
ii libempathy-gtk11 0.22.1-1ubuntu1 High-level library and user-interface for Te
ii libempathy11 0.22.1-1ubuntu1 High-level library and user-interface for Te
i libtelepathy-glib0 0.7.3-1 Telepathy framework - GLib library
ii libtelepathy2 0.3.3-1 Telepathy framework - old GLib library
ii python-telepathy 0.14.0-1ubuntu1 python language bindings for telepathy
ii telepathy-butterfly 0.3.1-0ubuntu2 MSN connection manager for telepathy
ii telepathy-gabble 0.7.2-0ubuntu1 Jabber/XMPP connection manager
ii telepathy-haze 0.2.0-1 A telepathy connection manager that use libp
ii telepathy-mission-control 4.60-1 Central control for Telepathy connection man
ii telepathy-salut 0.3.1-1 Link-local XMPP connection manager for the T

[Miguel Ruiz (mruiz)]

I tried to debug the application ...

mruiz@phoenix:~$ empathy
** (empathy:12845): DEBUG: mission_control_get_presence_actual: MC not running.
** (empathy:12845): DEBUG: mission_control_get_presence_message_actual: MC not running.
** (empathy:12845): DEBUG: mission_control_get_online_connections: MC not running.
** (empathy:12845): DEBUG: mission_control_get_connection_status: MC not running.
** (empathy:12845): DEBUG: mission_control_get_connection_status: MC not running.
** (empathy:12845): DEBUG: mission_control_get_connection_status: MC not running.
*** glibc detected *** empathy: free(): invalid pointer: 0xb7e16ff4 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb7257a85]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(cfree+0x90)[0xb725b4f0]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_free+0x31)[0xb7444c61]
/usr/lib/libempathy.so.11[0xb7ee43de]
/usr/lib/libempathy.so.11[0xb7ee40fe]
/usr/lib/libdbus-glib-1.so.2[0xb7ea033f]
/usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3[0xb7dfde01]
/usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3[0xb7dedb53]
/usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3(dbus_connection_dispatch+0x99)[0xb7def6f9]
/usr/lib/libdbus-glib-1.so.2[0xb7e9c4cd]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_dispatch+0x176)[0xb743cdd6]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0[0xb7440193]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_loop_run+0x1e7)[0xb7440577]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(gtk_main+0xb4)[0xb7a59264]
empathy[0x804a8a7]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0)[0xb7202450]
empathy[0x804a441]
======= Memory map: ========
08048000-0804c000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 278885 /usr/bin/empathy
0804c000-0804d000 rw-p 00004000 08:06 278885 /usr/bin/empathy
0804d000-084d2000 rw-p 0804d000 00:00 0 [heap]
b3e9d000-b3efd000 rw-s 00000000 00:09 1835037 /SYSV00000000 (deleted)
b3efd000-b3efe000 ---p b3efd000 00:00 0
b3efe000-b46fe000 rw-p b3efe000 00:00 0
b46fe000-b46ff000 ---p b46fe000 00:00 0
b46ff000-b4eff000 rw-p b46ff000 00:00 0
b4eff000-b4f00000 ---p b4eff000 00:00 0
b4f00000-b5721000 rw-p b4f00000 00:00 0
b5721000-b5800000 ---p b5721000 00:00 0
b584d000-b585e000 r--s 00000000 08:06 343298 /usr/share/mime/mime.cache
b585e000-b585f000 ---p b585e000 00:00 0
b585f000-b605f000 rw-p b585f000 00:00 0
b605f000-b6073000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 278864 /usr/lib/libbeagle.so.1.0.0
b6073000-b6074000 rw-p 00013000 08:06 278864 /usr/lib/libbeagle.so.1.0.0
b6074000-b607c000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 277943 /usr/lib/libtrackerclient.so.0.0.0
b607c000-b607d000 rw-p 00007000 08:06 277943 /usr/lib/libtrackerclient.so.0.0.0
b607d000-b609d000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 302121 /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so
b609d000-b609e000 rw-p 0001f000 08:06 302121 /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so
b609e000-b60ad000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 277829 /usr/lib/libhal.so.1.0.0
b60ad000-b60ae000 rw-p 0000e000 08:06 277829 /usr/lib/libhal.so.1.0.0
b60ae000-b60cb000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 302120 /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgiohal-volume-monitor.so
b60cb000-b60cc000 rw-p 0001c000 08:06 302120 /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgiohal-volume-monitor.so
b60cc000-b60db000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 212198 /lib/libbz2.so.1.0.4
b60db000-b60dc000 rw-p 0000f000 08:06 212198 /lib/libbz2.so.1.0.4
b60dc000-b613b000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 278005 /usr/lib/l...

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Can you check whether this is still an issue in the latest development version (Ubuntu 9.10)? Thanks in advance.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The bug has been fixed in karmic now