empathy large text entry crashes gnome session

[Neil]

Binary package hint: empathy

The empathy window seems to want to grow width wise as I type to fit the text rather than to wrap it. This is annoying enough but when the entry is long or quick enough this crashes my gnome session leaving me to log in again.

To replicate write a say 40 characters copy and repeatedly paste it. After a short time the empathy windows gets to the width of the screen then goes gray and then the gnome session crashes.

I expect to be able to write as much text as I like in the empathy text entry box without it crashing gnome, what happened was gnome crashed.

I'd like to be able to write as much text as I like without the window resizing itself, what I get is an anooying flashing window that covers over the application I have it next to and needs resizing after I've sent the text.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: empathy 2.32.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-24.42-generic-pae 2.6.35.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jan 14 11:29:26 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: empathy
XsessionErrors:
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:12723): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:12731): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed

[Javier Moreno (elpasmo)]

I'm sorry, but I can't understand your report. Where are you writing? In a chat window? In the contact list window? Can you attach a screenshot of the problem?

Thanks in advance.

[Neil (prockter)]

In a group chat window.

I can't really screenshot as it crashes the gnome-session. I could video it?

Thanks,

[Javier Moreno (elpasmo)]

Are you able to shot a video? That would be very helpful for understand this problem.

[Neil (prockter)]

The video is quite hard to make out. I have a group chat open and I'm pasting 60 chars repeatedly the windows first expands and then after about 5 pastes the session crashes

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 433651, so is being marked as such. Any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to report any other bugs you may find.