empathy assert failure: *** glibc detected *** empathy: malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x024173e0 ***

[Jono Bacon]

Binary package hint: empathy

Empathy crashed while testing voice chat with Ken VanDine. He called me, I answered, it says it is trying to connect and crashes. I am running the most current Empathy in Karmic,

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
AssertionMessage: *** glibc detected *** empathy: malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x024173e0 ***
Date: Thu Sep 10 12:57:53 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
Package: empathy 2.27.92-0ubuntu2
ProcCmdline: empathy
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.30-generic
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: empathy
StacktraceTop:
 __kernel_vsyscall ()
 raise () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
Title: empathy assert failure: *** glibc detected *** empathy: malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x024173e0 ***
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:__kernel_vsyscall ()
*__GI_raise (sig=6)
*__GI_abort () at abort.c:92
__libc_message (do_abort=2,
malloc_printerr (action=<value optimized out>,

[Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)]

Looks like this bug is actually in libtelepathy-farsight0 0.0.10-1 and should be fixed in 0.0.11

Jono:
 Please update to get the latest libtelepathy-farsight and we can test again. Thanks!