ekiga crashed with SIGSEGV in malloc()

[Duncan Lithgow]

Binary package hint: ekiga

Ubuntu 8.10 updated October 13th
Ekiga 2.0.12-0ubuntu5

I started ekiga, went to the address book, created a new local address book and ekiga hung for a while and then crashed. Apport picked up the crash straight away.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/ekiga
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: ekiga 2.0.12-0ubuntu5
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: ekiga
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: ekiga
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 malloc () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 xmlDictCreate () from /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
 xmlInitParserCtxt () from /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
Title: ekiga crashed with SIGSEGV in malloc()
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare scanner video

[Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow)]

Following the guide at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Backtrace here is a backtrace:

Starting program: /usr/bin/ekiga
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0xb5692720 (LWP 21590)]
[New Thread 0xb54dbb90 (LWP 21596)]
[New Thread 0xb549ab90 (LWP 21597)]

(ekiga:21590): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated
(Gtk-Warning repeats four times)

[New Thread 0xb4c26b90 (LWP 21600)]
[New Thread 0xb4425b90 (LWP 21601)]
[New Thread 0xb3c24b90 (LWP 21602)]
[New Thread 0xb3423b90 (LWP 21604)]
[Thread 0xb4c26b90 (LWP 21600) exited]
[New Thread 0xb33e2b90 (LWP 21607)]
[New Thread 0xb33a1b90 (LWP 21608)]
[New Thread 0xb3360b90 (LWP 21609)]

(ekiga:21590): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_content_type_get_mime_type: assertion `type != NULL' failed
[New Thread 0xb331fb90 (LWP 21610)]
[New Thread 0xb32deb90 (LWP 21611)]
[New Thread 0xb329db90 (LWP 21612)]
[Thread 0xb3360b90 (LWP 21609) exited]

(ekiga:21590): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_client_get: assertion `GCONF_IS_CLIENT (client)' failed
[Thread 0xb4425b90 (LWP 21601) exited]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0xb5692720 (LWP 21590)]
0xb76ffca9 in e_source_list_sync () from /usr/lib/libedataserver-1.2.so.11
(gdb)

[Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow)]

I just noticed that the file made by gdb had a little bit more information and ended like this:

...
(gdb) Hangup detected on fd 0
error detected on stdin
The program is running. Exit anyway? (y or n) EOF [assumed Y]

[Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow)]

Upstream says this is a GConf problem. I've opened question # 47868 <https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ekiga/+question/47868> to get me up and running again...
So how do we mark this as a gconf bug?

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:malloc_consolidate () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
_int_malloc () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
malloc () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
xmlDictCreate () from /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
xmlInitParserCtxt () from /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

re assigned to gconf.