empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in free()

[Ranadip]

Binary package hint: empathy

Tried to initiate a video chat with a gtalk contact. The chat window appeared for a couple of seconds and then "CRASHHHHH" :-)

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: empathy 2.30.0.1-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.31-generic-pae 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Apr 16 14:03:52 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
ProcCmdline: empathy
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xb5a61c15: cmp 0x8(%eax),%ecx
 PC (0xb5a61c15) ok
 source "0x8(%eax)" (0x00000008) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%ecx" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: empathy
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 free () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 g_free () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_array_free () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 gst_structure_free () from /usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0
Title: empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in free()
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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StacktraceTop:
 _int_free (av=<value optimized out>, p=0x89c61d8)
 *__GI___libc_free (mem=0x89c68e0) at malloc.c:3738
 g_free () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_array_free () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 gst_structure_free (structure=0x8a86348)

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thanks for taking time to report this bug. Can you please start empathy from terminal with empathy EMPATHY_DEBUG=all and try to make a call and if empathy hangs please attach the text that appeared in the terminal

[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!

[Everthon Valadão (valadao)]

I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 beta2 and I experienced this bug when activating the "show disconected contacts" with my Google Talk account online.

I'm attaching the crash info to help trace this issue.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Please open a new bug, this was an issue on 10.04. thanks.