empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in FcFontSetSort() when some utf characters are sent

[Yann Dìnendal]

Binary package hint: empathy

When I type some uncommon characters (like ↓), empathy will crash, and if I reopen it, I won't be able to open a conversation with the same person without it crashing again. This is because of the historic showing again the character which will crash Empathy.

I'm using ubuntu 9.10 RC, with Empathy 2.28.1.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 22 19:18:29 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: empathy 2.28.1-1ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: empathy
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x4e279e: mov 0x8(%eax),%eax
 PC (0x004e279e) ok
 source "0x8(%eax)" (0x00000008) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%eax" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: empathy
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
 FcFontSetSort () from /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
 FcFontSort () from /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libwebkit-1.0.so.2
Title: empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in FcFontSetSort()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:FcPatternObjectFindElt (p=0x0, object=34) at fcpat.c:309
FcPatternObjectGet (p=0x0, object=34, id=0, v=0xbf9b4048)
IA__FcFontSetSort (config=0x87813e0, sets=0xbf9b40a0,
IA__FcFontSort (config=0x4eb19d, p=0x0, trim=1, csp=0x0,
WebCore::FontCache::getFontDataForCharacters (

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a valgrind log following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Valgrind and attach the file to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[Yann Dìnendal (yannbreliere)]

Ok, I did what you asked, here is the Valgrind log. Hope it can help.

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

I also see this bug, on x86-64, and it is present in Empathy 2.28.1.1-0ubuntu1 packages from karmic-proposed. Just to confirm the obvious: if you set a non-adium theme, Empathy will work correctly (and, in my case, not crash when displaying ℃). This could turn out to be a webkit bug.

[Yann Dìnendal (yannbreliere)]

So can I change the status to Confirmed?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for the work there, could you install libempathy30-dbgsym and get a new log? Do you use 2.28.1.1?

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the updated version of empathy in karmic. Thanks in advance. If you still face this with updated empathy then please provide the required information as requested in previous comment

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

Sorry, this fell through my bugmail. This appears to be fixed in Lucid.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thanks for the reply marking fixed as per last comment.