liferea crashes with segfault when run

[brotherquintus]

Binary package hint: liferea

whenever i try to run liferea an empty window appears, only to disappear and crash liferea. Running liferea from commandline returns returns a segfault.

I am using current ubuntu karmic 32 bit beta with all updates on a samsung p560 plavos laptop.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 14 22:40:28 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: liferea 1.6.0-1ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13.45-generic
SourcePackage: liferea
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic i686

[brotherquintus (gkoefner)]

I just checked and the same thing also happens under Ubuntu Jaunty (all updates) on the p560, as well as my desktop machine.

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

Missing backtrace

[brotherquintus (gkoefner)]

strace liferea
this is the trace in karmic.

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

brotherquintus wrote:
> strace liferea
> this is the trace in karmic.

we need a gdb backtrace, strace is useless for crashes.

[brotherquintus (gkoefner)]

sorry :)
gdb backtrace in karmic

[brotherquintus (gkoefner)]

ok, strange:
removed wins from nsswitch.conf -> liferea starts
added wins to nsswitch.conf again -> liferea still starts

i'm at a loss.. will try this later on my other machine

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

This is bug #369274

[Kay Parker (kayparker)]

Guess liferea crashes when selecting a headline with an embedded (youtube) video like that: http://www.guitarnoize.com/blog/comments/5-for-the-weekend-1995/