empathy assert failure: *** glibc detected *** empathy: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x0a898158 ***

[Mark Leeder]

Binary package hint: empathy

file transfer doesn't work & when trying to send or receive video calls the program crashes.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: empathy 2.31.92-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
AssertionMessage: *** glibc detected *** empathy: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x0a898158 ***
Date: Sat Sep 25 16:46:22 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429.4)
ProcCmdline: empathy
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: empathy
StacktraceTop:
 __kernel_vsyscall ()
 raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
Title: empathy assert failure: *** glibc detected *** empathy: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x0a898158 ***
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 __kernel_vsyscall ()
 *__GI_raise (sig=6)
 *__GI_abort () at abort.c:92
 __libc_message (do_abort=2,
 malloc_printerr (action=<value optimized out>,

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a valgrind log following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Valgrind and attach the file to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[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!