empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in g_memdup()

[Pete Graner]

Starting empathy every time gives the error

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: empathy 3.1.5.1-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.13-generic 3.0.3
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Tue Aug 23 16:00:38 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110802.1)
ProcCmdline: empathy
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f17770f77cc: movdqu (%rsi),%xmm0
 PC (0x7f17770f77cc) ok
 source "(%rsi)" (0x01fad000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%xmm0" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: empathy
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 g_memdup () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 empathy_avatar_new ()
 ?? ()
 g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in g_memdup()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Cristian Aravena Romero (caravena)]

password may be in the coreDump.gz !

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 __memcpy_ssse3 () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memcpy-ssse3.S:2825
 g_memdup (mem=0x1592260, byte_size=22618720) at /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/string3.h:52
 empathy_avatar_new (data=0x1592260 "\002", len=22618720, format=0x0, filename=0x13d6a80 "/home/pgraner/.cache/telepathy/avatars/gabble/jabber/b0f00e0259b9547a68d43df3654698492f596b99") at empathy-contact.c:1428
 contact_set_avatar_from_tp_contact (contact=0x13f2650) at empathy-contact.c:1818
 g_closure_invoke (closure=0x1592260, return_value=0x0, n_param_values=2, param_values=0x1412f00, invocation_hint=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.16/./gobject/gclosure.c:773

[Bilal Shahid (s9iper1)]

cristian aravena
it was just by mistake,,

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

launchpad have done the retracing and there is no coredump attached anymore, so making it public now.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thanks for the bug report. This bug is fixed upstream we should have it fixed when the next version of empathy releases

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package empathy - 3.1.5.1-1ubuntu2

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empathy (3.1.5.1-1ubuntu2) oneiric; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/70_lp_832378.patch:
    - empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in __memcpy_ssse3() (LP: #828802)
    - empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in g_memdup() (LP: #832378)
 -- Omer Akram <email address hidden> Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:15:51 +0500