empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in IA__g_type_check_instance()

[brethmas]

Binary package hint: empathy

cannot find exactly "IA__g_type-check in reported bugs

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Tue Nov 3 23:45:30 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: empathy 2.28.1-1ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: empathy
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7b5293 <IA__g_type_check_instance+35>: mov (%eax),%edx
 PC (0x007b5293) 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=0x87bd420)
 IA__g_signal_connect_data (instance=0x87bd420,
 ?? ()
 IA__g_type_create_instance (type=142229848)
 g_object_constructor (type=142229848,
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

[Christopher Meiklejohn (cmeiklejohn)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

* Is this reproducible?
* If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[brethmas (brethmas)]

cmeiklejohn a écrit :
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:
>
> * Is this reproducible?
> * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?
>
> This will help us to find and resolve the problem.
>
> ** Changed in: empathy (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
>
Yes, its reproductible. ! it crashes the same way after half a second
each time I try to open it.
A friend told me to erase file .gconf/app/empathy but it does not exist
on my computer.
(I know this is a hidden file, I turned to "all visible")

[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)]

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.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[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!