Empathy crashes on startup

[huib]

Binary package hint: empathy

duplicate of #422831 ?

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Mon Nov 2 09:10:16 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
Package: empathy 2.28.1-1ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: empathy
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x66e293 <IA__g_type_check_instance+35>: mov (%eax),%edx
 PC (0x0066e293) ok
 source "(%eax)" (0x000000cd) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%edx" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: empathy
StacktraceTop:
 IA__g_type_check_instance (type_instance=0x838c420)
 IA__g_signal_connect_data (instance=0x838c420,
 ?? ()
 IA__g_type_create_instance (type=137853480)
 g_object_constructor (type=137853480,
Title: empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in IA__g_type_check_instance()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev video
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1802): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1802): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1910): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:1898): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:g_type_check_instance () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
g_signal_connect_data () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
?? ()
g_type_create_instance () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Closing this bug for now as there dont seem to be any duplicates of this bug and also due to the fact empathy 2.30 is quite stable with crashes :) If you face this crash with empathy 2.30 feel free to open this bug again