empathy throws a segfault immediately after startup

[David Nielsen]

Binary package hint: empathy

Running empathy sometime after the mission control 5 update consistently causes a segfault at startup

david@dawkins:~$ empathy
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Sep 4 12:20:33 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: empathy 2.27.91.1-2ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=da_DK.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-9.29-generic
SourcePackage: empathy
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-9-generic x86_64

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, your crash report is either missing or challenging to deal with as a '.crash' file. Please follow these instructions to have apport report a new bug about your crash that can be dealt with by the automatic retracer.

 If you are running the Ubuntu Stable Release you might need to enable apport in /etc/default/apport and restart.

 If you are using Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop environment - launch nautilus and navigate to your /var/crash directory and double click on the crash report you wish to submit.

 If you are using Kubuntu or Xubuntu you can file the crash using /usr/share/apport/apport-qt --crash-file=/var/crash/_my_crash_report.crash in a terminal - where _my_crash_report.crash is the crash you would like to report.
 I'm closing this bug report since the process outlined above will automatically open a new bug report which can then dealt with more efficiently. Thanks in advance for your cooperation and understanding.

[Benjamin Geese (ben-8409)]

im running the 32bit ubuntu. the same problem appears to me. i have bing running ubuntu karmic since alpha 6, since then upgrading once a day.

here is my crash report from /var/crash

[Benjamin Geese (ben-8409)]

sorry, im new in but reporting. i my case, this seems to be a duplicate of this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/450290 empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance()