empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in g_main_context_dispatch() on startup

[Jorge Juan]

Binary package hint: empathy

As of Sept. 4th, Karmic Alpha 5 just released, when starting empathy, it shows the contact list for a couple of seconds and then crashes with Segmentation fault (core dumped).

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
Package: empathy 2.27.91.1-2ubuntu2
ProcCmdline: empathy
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=es_ES.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-9.29-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x267ce8: movl $0x0,0x4(%eax)
 PC (0x00267ce8) ok
 source "$0x0" ok
 destination "0x4(%eax)" (0xaaaaaaae) 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
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_main_context_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Title: empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in g_main_context_dispatch()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-9-generic i686
UserGroups: admin root sudo

[Lothar Braun (typecast)]

I can confirm this crash. This also happens to me whenever empathy tries to connect to a network. I cannot see the contact list, though. StacktraceTop looks exactly the same on my crash

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:?? () from /usr/lib/libtelepathy-glib.so.0
g_idle_dispatch (source=0x8930368, callback=0xaaaaaaaa,
IA__g_main_context_dispatch (context=0x85fc8e8)
g_main_context_iterate (context=0x85fc8e8,
IA__g_main_loop_run (loop=0x8929030)