empathy-accounts crashed with SIGSEGV in free()

[Darren Weslow]

Binary package hint: empathy

Using Ubuntu 10.10 - the Maverick Meerkat

Package Used Empathy

Using the system testing applet to create a google talk account, Able to enter all details needed for the account set up but once you finish this bug popped up.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: empathy 2.31.92-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.32-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Sep 17 07:04:36 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy-accounts
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha amd64 (20100602.2)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/empathy-accounts --if-needed
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f03322ebc50 <free+64>: mov (%rax),%rbx
 PC (0x7f03322ebc50) ok
 source "(%rax)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rbx" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: empathy
StacktraceTop:
 free () from /lib/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_hash_table_remove_all () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 empathy_account_settings_discard_changes ()
 ?? ()
Title: empathy-accounts crashed with SIGSEGV in free()
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 *__GI___libc_free (mem=0x456296) at malloc.c:3724
 g_hash_table_remove_all_nodes (
 g_hash_table_remove_all (hash_table=0x247bb20)
 empathy_account_settings_discard_changes (
 empathy_account_settings_created_cb (

[Nicolay Doytchev (lightrush)]

Not only it crashes, after that the newly created account is inoperable.

As a workaround you could create a Jabber account with your Google Talk credentials and enter "gmail.com" as a resource.

Alternatively - just use Pidgin until this is fixed.