empathy crashes when opening jabber chat room

[marsteegh]

Empathy crashes as soon as I try to join a jabber chat room. This has always worked fine.

'lsb_release -rd' :
Description: Ubuntu 14.10
Release: 14.10

 'apt-cache policy empathy':
empathy:
  Installed: 3.8.6-0ubuntu13
  Candidate: 3.8.6-0ubuntu13
  Version table:
 *** 3.8.6-0ubuntu13 0
        500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

gdb stacktrace:
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00000000004235ad in roster_window_join_chatroom_menu_activate_cb (action=<optimized out>, parameter=<optimized out>, user_data=0x9044f0)
    at empathy-roster-window.c:1291
#1 0x00007f1d52e42245 in g_closure_invoke (closure=0x8e7f80, return_value=0x0, n_param_values=2, param_values=0x7fffac1b2ae0, invocation_hint=0x7fffac1b2a80)
    at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.42.1/./gobject/gclosure.c:768
#2 0x00007f1d52e53f3c in signal_emit_unlocked_R (node=node@entry=0x87e560, detail=detail@entry=0, instance=instance@entry=0x89cac0,
    emission_return=emission_return@entry=0x0, instance_and_params=instance_and_params@entry=0x7fffac1b2ae0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.42.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3553
#3 0x00007f1d52e5c748 in g_signal_emit_valist (instance=<optimized out>, signal_id=<optimized out>, detail=<optimized out>, var_args=var_args@entry=0x7fffac1b2c70)
    at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.42.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3309
#4 0x00007f1d52e5c9af in g_signal_emit (instance=instance@entry=0x89cac0, signal_id=<optimized out>, detail=detail@entry=0)
    at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.42.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3365
#5 0x00007f1d53130ab5 in g_simple_action_activate (action=0x89cac0, parameter=0xb8dc60) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.42.1/./gio/gsimpleaction.c:211
#6 0x00007f1d5312f441 in g_action_activate (action=0x89cac0, parameter=0xb8dc60) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.42.1/./gio/gaction.c:390
#7 0x00007f1d53c66db5 in gtk_application_window_actions_activate_action_full (remote=0x8a1210, action_name=0x799560 "join", parameter=0xb8dc60,
    platform_data=0xb8f790) at /build/buildd/gtk+3.0-3.12.2/./gtk/gtkapplicationwindow.c:152
#8 0x00007f1d5312dc06 in org_gtk_Actions_method_call (connection=<optimized out>, sender=<optimized out>, object_path=<optimized out>,
    interface_name=<optimized out>, method_name=<optimized out>, parameters=0x7f1d2c0246c0, invocation=0x7f1d2c003160, user_data=0x9d06d0)
    at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.42.1/./gio/gactiongroupexporter.c:427
#9 0x00007f1d5314fb3c in call_in_idle_cb (user_data=0x7f1d2c003160) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.42.1/./gio/gdbusconnection.c:4884
#10 0x00007f1d52b6cb6d in g_main_dispatch (context=0x72f350) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.42.1/./glib/gmain.c:3111
#11 g_main_context_dispatch (context=context@entry=0x72f350) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.42.1/./glib/gmain.c:3710
#12 0x00007f1d52b6cf48 in g_main_context_iterate (context=context@entry=0x72f350, block=block@entry=1, dispatch=dispatch@entry=1, self=<optimized out>)
    at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.42.1/./glib/gmain.c:3781
#13 0x00007f1d52b6cffc in g_main_context_iteration (context=0x72f350, context@entry=0x0, may_block=may_block@entry=1)
    at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.42.1/./glib/gmain.c:3842
#14 0x00007f1d531291ac in g_application_run (application=0x73e150, argc=argc@entry=1, argv=argv@entry=0x7fffac1b31b8)
    at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.42.1/./gio/gapplication.c:2282
#15 0x00000000004165b9 in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffac1b31b8) at empathy.c:847

(gdb) fr 0
#0 0x00000000004235ad in roster_window_join_chatroom_menu_activate_cb (action=<optimized out>, parameter=<optimized out>, user_data=0x9044f0)
    at empathy-roster-window.c:1291
1291 DEBUG ("Failed to get chatroom '%s' on '%s': %s",
(gdb) li
1286
1287 chatroom = empathy_chatroom_manager_find (self->priv->chatroom_manager,
1288 account, room);
1289 if (chatroom == NULL)
1290 {
1291 DEBUG ("Failed to get chatroom '%s' on '%s': %s",
1292 room, path, error->message);
1293 g_error_free (error);
1294 goto out;
1295 }
(gdb) ins room
$1 = (const gchar *) 0x799568 "blaat"
(gdb) ins path
$2 = (const gchar *) 0x79956e "/org/freedesktop/Telepathy/Account/gabble/jabber/martijn_40bvchitchat1"
(gdb) ins error
$3 = (GError *) 0x0

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.