empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in empathy_contact_get_alias()

[Ken VanDine]

This crash occurs when trying to add a new contact and when trying to place a "New call" to a SIP number not in the contact list.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: empathy 3.3.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-6.12-generic 3.2.0-rc6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-6-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 1e7afd42fe45733e86839c658e18c54d
CheckboxSystem: bb422ca46d02494cdbc459927a98bc2f
Date: Thu Dec 22 16:02:04 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110802)
ProcCmdline: empathy
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x47e766 <empathy_contact_get_account+22>: cmp %rax,(%rdx)
 PC (0x0047e766) ok
 source "%rax" ok
 destination "(%rdx)" (0xe7894cc689f2894c) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: empathy
StacktraceTop:
 empathy_contact_get_account (contact=<optimized out>) at empathy-contact.c:978
 empathy_new_call_dialog_response (dialog=0x2302a80, response_id=-3) at empathy-new-call-dialog.c:99
 g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in empathy_contact_get_account()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-11-08 (44 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)]

Upstream bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=666580

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 empathy_contact_get_alias (contact=0x7fdd2d5e094f) at empathy-contact.c:837
 empathy_new_call_dialog_class_init (class=<optimized out>) at empathy-new-call-dialog.c:264
 empathy_new_call_dialog_class_intern_init (klass=<optimized out>) at empathy-new-call-dialog.c:51
 ?? ()

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)]

This was fixed in empathy 3.3.4 as a side effect of fixing another crasher.