empathy-chat crashed with SIGABRT - seemingly random

[Perry Blanchard]

I know this may be rather vague but this has happened to me twice. Upon responding to an IM the window fades to black overlay and shortly after apport comes up with the message in the summary.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: empathy 3.2.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Sat Oct 8 14:14:20 2011
Disassembly: => 0x7f9592f413a5: Cannot access memory at address 0x7f9592f413a5
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/empathy/empathy-chat
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/empathy/empathy-chat
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: empathy
Stacktrace:
 #0 0x00007f9592f413a5 in ?? ()
 No symbol table info available.
 #1 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
 No symbol table info available.
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
Title: empathy-chat crashed with SIGABRT
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-04 (3 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Stacktrace:
 #0 0x00007f9592f413a5 in ?? ()
 No symbol table info available.
 #1 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
 No symbol table info available.
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ?? ()

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for your report!

However, processing it in order to get sufficient information for the
developers failed (it does not generate an useful symbolic stack trace). This
might be caused by some outdated packages which were installed on your system
at the time of the report:

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outdated debug symbol package for libtiff4: package version 3.9.5-1ubuntu1 dbgsym version 3.9.4-5ubuntu6
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outdated debug symbol package for libk5crypto3: package version 1.9.1+dfsg-1ubuntu1 dbgsym version 1.8.3+dfsg-5ubuntu2.1
outdated debug symbol package for libavahi-client3: package version 0.6.30-4ubuntu1 dbgsym version 0.6.30-0ubuntu2
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libcups2 version 1.5.0-8 required, but 1.5.0-8ubuntu1 is available
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outdated debug symbol package for libgssdp-1.0-2: package version 0.10.0-2 dbgsym version 0.8.2-1

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