empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in g_strdup()

[Onno Steenbergen]

Binary package hint: empathy

Happens to me multiple times a day with latest Ubuntu Natty installation. Latest was when Google Talk would not connect and I clicked on the edit settings in the notification bar in the main window

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: empathy 2.33.4-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic 2.6.38
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Mar 29 09:43:53 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110302)
ProcCmdline: empathy -h
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f9f31a255d1: movdqu (%rdi),%xmm1
 PC (0x7f9f31a255d1) ok
 source "(%rdi)" (0x6a0000001e) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%xmm1" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: empathy
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 g_strdup () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
 ?? ()
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in g_strdup()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-03-09 (19 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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StacktraceTop:
 __strlen_sse2 () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/../strlen.S:32
 g_strdup (str=0x6a0000001e <Address 0x6a0000001e out of bounds>) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.28.4/./glib/gstrfuncs.c:101
 gtk_status_icon_class_init (klass=0xd79520) at /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.24.3/gtk/gtkstatusicon.c:234
 gtk_status_icon_class_intern_init (klass=0xd79520) at /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.24.3/gtk/gtkstatusicon.c:193
 ?? ()

[Evan Huus (eapache)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are very sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner.

The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Oneiric Ocelot. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

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Evan Huus
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[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

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!.