empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in malloc_consolidate()

[Renato Oliveira Frota]

I was doing nothing. It was been running in the background, and suddenly crashed.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: empathy 3.3.5-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.27-generic-pae 3.2.6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.93-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Sat Mar 3 01:38:42 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta i386 (20120227)
ProcCmdline: empathy
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xb4f46cd8: cmp 0xc(%eax),%edi
 PC (0xb4f46cd8) ok
 source "0xc(%eax)" (0x000016a5) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%edi" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: empathy
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 malloc () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_malloc () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in malloc()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 malloc_consolidate (av=0xb5074440) at malloc.c:4254
 malloc_consolidate (av=0xb5074440) at malloc.c:4192
 _int_malloc (av=0xb5074440, bytes=1024) at malloc.c:3532
 __GI___libc_malloc (bytes=1024) at malloc.c:2924
 standard_malloc (n_bytes=1024) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.18/./glib/gmem.c:85

[Bilal Shahid (s9iper1)]

thanks for the bug report
the stacktrace has enough info to find out the problem
hope thats helps. i am sending it to upstream.
you please subscribe to the upstream bug

[Bilal Shahid (s9iper1)]

needed steps to reproduce it ?