empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in g_main_context_dispatch()

[Jayson Reis]

Binary package hint: empathy

Just after starting empathy I received a crash report.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 1 21:35:57 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: empathy 2.27.91.1-2ubuntu2
ProcCmdline: empathy
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=pt_BR.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-9.29-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fd6e42d78ef: movl $0x0,0x8(%rax)
 PC (0x7fd6e42d78ef) ok
 source "$0x0" ok
 destination "0x8(%rax)" (0xaaaaaaaaaaaaaab2) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: empathy
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libtelepathy-glib.so.0
 g_main_context_dispatch ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 gtk_main () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
Title: empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in g_main_context_dispatch()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-9-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout fuse lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:tp_connection_manager_idle_read_manager_file (data=0x20f8128)
IA__g_main_context_dispatch (context=0x1b06190)
g_main_context_iterate (context=0x1b06190,
IA__g_main_loop_run (loop=0x20d0340)
gtk_main () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, the crash seems similar to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593436

[bapoumba (bapoumba)]

Same bug here.
Linux phoenix 2.6.31-9-generic #29-Ubuntu SMP Sun Aug 30 17:39:23 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
up to date.

[monty (haveno)]

Same here, Empathy starts and crashs emitedly in loop...

[Jean-Yves Pellé (jy-pelle)]

The first launch was ok (right after the alpha5 installation) but I have the same problem now

[Kristoffer Lundén (kristoffer-lunden)]

Got the same as Jean-Yves, more or less: Installed alpha5, worked without a problem (also worked in the live CD) - then suddenly a crash just randomly and after that it won't start. Apport first told me to update, so I did that. No difference, apart from that Apport says that it can't extract any useful information (guess no debug info available?).

So it's hard to provide any extra info, since apport can't collect any.

I did set up one MSN and one Jabber account, and they worked at first.

[Stéphane Scot (stephane-chloste)]

Turns out for me at least, the whole works isn't crashing, just the empathy frontend (or something). After I opened the programme and it crashed today, someone sent me an IM about an hour later, my empathy frontend was then more than kind enough to open and display the message. So I guess telepathy itself is successfully connecting the the AIM servers but then empathy or empathy-gtk or something is dying but is then capable of waking up when needed by the backend. I really don't know how the telepathy framework is supposed to function...

[Stéphane Scot (stephane-chloste)]

Fixed for me in latest version.

[Jayson Reis (jaysonsantos2003)]

Fixed for me too.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you. Therefore closing this bug.

[harrykar (harrykar)]

im on ubuntu 9.10 liveCD Empathy had crashed after a try to join a MUC(xmpp room) on another server

[Sef (jo-ker)]

I had switching from amsn back to empathy. Clicking to restart msn (on empathy) did not work and program crashed.