Comment 1 for bug 896824

I think this is a bug in libsoup2.4-1 2.36.0-0ubuntu1. It may be fixed in libsoup 2.36.1, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=661758

GNU Debugger session:

$ gdb --args midori https://plus.google.com
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Reading symbols from /usr/bin/midori...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/midori...done.
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(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/midori https://plus.google.com
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0x7fffe84a5700 (LWP 23270)]
[New Thread 0x7fffa7ca2700 (LWP 23271)]
[New Thread 0x7fff9b8f8700 (LWP 23272)]
[New Thread 0x7fff99db4700 (LWP 23273)]
[New Thread 0x7fff98444700 (LWP 23274)]
[New Thread 0x7fff95fe1700 (LWP 23275)]
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[New Thread 0x7fff93fdd700 (LWP 23279)]

(midori:23267): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(midori:23267): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(midori:23267): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(midori:23267): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(midori:23267): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(midori:23267): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_type_instance_get_private: assertion `instance != NULL && instance->g_class != NULL' failed

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
soup_socket_is_ssl (sock=0x0) at soup-socket.c:1079
1079 soup-socket.c: No such file or directory.
 in soup-socket.c
(gdb) bt
#0 soup_socket_is_ssl (sock=0x0) at soup-socket.c:1079
#1 0x00007ffff59e3e60 in new_iostate (msg=0x7ffff87510e0, sock=0x0, mode=SOUP_MESSAGE_IO_CLIENT,
    get_headers_cb=0x7ffff59e20d0 <get_request_headers>, parse_headers_cb=<optimized out>,
    header_data=<optimized out>, completion_cb=0x7ffff59f0c50 <message_completed>,
    completion_data=0x7ffff870adf0) at soup-message-io.c:1082
#2 0x00007ffff59e5737 in soup_message_io_client (item=0x7ffff870adf0,
    get_headers_cb=0x7ffff59e20d0 <get_request_headers>,
    parse_headers_cb=0x7ffff59e1ef0 <parse_response_headers>, header_data=0x7ffff870adf0,
    completion_cb=0x7ffff59f0c50 <message_completed>, completion_data=<optimized out>)
    at soup-message-io.c:1120
#3 0x00007ffff59f06fb in process_queue_item (item=0x7ffff870adf0, should_prune=0x7fffffffd9cc, loop=1)
    at soup-session-async.c:390
#4 0x00007ffff59f09eb in run_queue (sa=<optimized out>) at soup-session-async.c:442
#5 0x00007ffff59f1113 in idle_run_queue (sa=0x7ffff82b3010) at soup-session-async.c:465
#6 0x00007ffff7644a5d in g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#7 0x00007ffff7645258 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#8 0x00007ffff7645792 in g_main_loop_run () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#9 0x00007ffff6c67db7 in gtk_main () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#10 0x00007ffff7f9436a in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffe0d8) at ../midori/main.c:2594