video conference - empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in g_object_ref()

[Bryan Quigley]

Binary package hint: empathy

On one computer with 9.10 calling a 10.04 computer both using empathy. Video call loads on the 10.04 for 3 seconds and then crashes. No crash on the 9.10 computer.

Using Google Talk (Google Apps user accounts).

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Feb 3 16:57:26 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100201)
Package: empathy 2.29.6-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: empathy
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-12.16-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fd497489001 <g_object_ref+17>: cmpq $0x50,(%rax)
 PC (0x7fd497489001) ok
 source "$0x50" ok
 destination "(%rax)" (0x3015e9ed0) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: empathy
StacktraceTop:
 g_object_ref () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 gst_object_ref ()
 gst_object_get_parent ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgstbase-0.10.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0
Title: empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in g_object_ref()
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-12-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1631): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1631): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1671): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 g_object_ref () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 gst_object_ref (object=0x158c620) at gstobject.c:299
 gst_object_get_parent (object=0x1618670)
 gst_base_transform_buffer_alloc (pad=0x1618670,
 gst_pad_alloc_buffer_full (pad=0x1618af0,

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

No longer occurs on new empathy.