Ekiga crashes when netmeeting tries to connect

[Georg Brzyk]

Binary package hint: ekiga

When I start Microsoft NetMeeting 3.01 on Windows XP and connect to the IP of my Linux box with Ekiga running, Ekiga immediately crashes with a parser error.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: ekiga 3.2.6-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-17.26-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-17-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Mar 31 17:00:14 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/ekiga
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.utf8
SourcePackage: ekiga

[Peter William Birch (birchb1024)]

I get this too:

~$ uname -a
Linux xxxxx 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:24 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

~$ dpkg -l ekiga
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii ekiga 3.2.7-2ubuntu2 H.323 and SIP compatible VoIP client

[Peter William Birch (birchb1024)]

Here's the -d debug output:
(ekiga:13339): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to set text from markup due to error parsing markup: Error on line 1 char 73: Invalid UTF-8 encoded text in name - not valid ' Microsoft\xae NetMeeting\xae 3.0 181/21324'

[Peter William Birch (birchb1024)]

Added verbose log output as attachment. (Natty)

[Eugen Dedu (eugen-dedu)]

4.0.0 fixes this crash.