empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in mc_profile_get_protocol()

[James Tait]

Binary package hint: empathy

I've been having some problems getting Empathy to authenticate with my Jabber server. I'd just deleted my two accounts and selected to add a new one. I unchecked the "I already have an account" check box, then clicked the Create button. Empathy stopped responding for a few seconds (window greyed out) then crashed.

jtait@ferrari:~$ apt-cache policy empathy
empathy:
  Installed: 2.26.1-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.26.1-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.26.1-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

jtait@ferrari:~$ uname -a
Linux ferrari 2.6.28-13-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 2 07:55:09 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

jtait@ferrari:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
Package: empathy 2.26.1-1ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: empathy
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: empathy
StacktraceTop:
 mc_profile_get_protocol ()
 empathy_account_widget_generic_new ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in mc_profile_get_protocol()
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:mc_profile_get_protocol (id=0x0) at mc-profile.c:804
empathy_account_widget_generic_new (
accounts_dialog_update_account (dialog=0x17a7750,
accounts_dialog_model_selection_changed (
IA__g_closure_invoke (closure=0x1791b70,

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Could you try if that's still an issue in karmic?

[James Tait (jamestait)]

No, this doesn't appear to be an issue in Karmic, at least I haven't been able to reproduce it. I don't have a script that reliably triggered the problem though.

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

Set invalid as per user chat