In the menu spell checking enableing dutch crashes empathy

[Ian Corne]

Binary package hint: empathy

Whenever I start typing it crashed empathy.

This only happens when enabling dutch;Flemish spellchecking.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Mar 25 18:18:46 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: empathy 2.29.93-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-17.26-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
SourcePackage: empathy
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-17-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, your crash report is either missing or challenging to deal with as a '.crash' file. Please follow these instructions to have apport report a new bug about your crash that can be dealt with by the automatic retracer.

 If you are running the Ubuntu Stable Release you might need to enable apport in /etc/default/apport and restart.

 If you are using Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop environment - launch nautilus and navigate to your /var/crash directory and double click on the crash report you wish to submit.

 If you are using Kubuntu or Xubuntu you can file the crash using /usr/share/apport/apport-qt --crash-file=/var/crash/_my_crash_report.crash in a terminal - where _my_crash_report.crash is the crash you would like to report.
 I'm closing this bug report since the process outlined above will automatically open a new bug report which can then dealt with more efficiently. Thanks in advance for your cooperation and understanding.

[Ian Corne (icorne)]

I'm running 10.04

I will try to get apport to report it, but it crashed too, last time.

[Ian Corne (icorne)]

The program crashed on an assertion failure, but the message could not be retrieved. Apport does not support reporting these crashes.

What can i do to help now?

I have the _usr_bin_empathy.1000.crash file

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

did you read the previous comment? you can open a bug as described...

[Ian Corne (icorne)]

Did you read what I said?

Your method doesn't work, it returns:

"The problem cannot be reported:

The program crashed on an assertion failure, but the message could not be retrieved. Apport does not support reporting these crashes."

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Could you try to obtain a backtrace following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and upload the backtrace (as an attachment) to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[Ian Corne (icorne)]

Ok i'm trying that but if I follow the steps, gdb hangs too..

This is all I get, after that I have to try alot to get gdb to exit.

$ gdb empathy 2>&1 | tee ~/gdb-empathy.txt

(gdb) handle SIG33 pass nostop noprint
Signal Stop Print Pass to program Description
SIG33 No No Yes Real-time event 33
(gdb) set pagination 0
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/empathy
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::length_error'
  what(): basic_string::assign

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0x0012d422 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
(gdb)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the log seems about right, you just didn't type "backtrace" once you got the crash

[Ian Corne (icorne)]

That is because I couldn't do that anymore; like I said: gdb hangs too..

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could be that gdb stops empathy while the focus is being locked, in which case it would require to be run in an another user session, the crash can also be used to get the details locally by somebody interested by doing the extra work there otherwise

[Ian Corne (icorne)]

I enabled the dutch spelling in maverick and it seems to works fine now.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

closing this bug assuming it got fixed at its own. as in maverick we are still using 2.30.1 if you face this bug again feel free to open it again