I built telepathy-gabble with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="noopt nostrip" and got the following complete backtrace: #0 0x00000000004aee0f in gabble_request_pipeline_enqueue (pipeline=0x0, msg=0x126c400, timeout=180, callback=0x4bf90d , user_data=0x18e5a10) at request-pipeline.c:406 priv = 0x1892ac0 item = 0x122a900 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "gabble_request_pipeline_enqueue" #1 0x00000000004bffff in request_send (request=0x18e5a10, timeout=180) at vcard-manager.c:1519 jid = 0x18c7230 "bobdobbs@2entwine.net" msg = 0x126c400 entry = 0x1892ac0 conn = 0x125a0d0 base = 0x125a0d0 contact_repo = 0x1239460 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "request_send" #2 0x00000000004c01fc in gabble_vcard_manager_request (self=0x1255430, handle=31, timeout=180, callback=0, user_data=0x0, object=0x125a0d0) at vcard-manager.c:1579 priv = 0x1255450 connection = 0x125a0d0 contact_repo = 0x1239460 request = 0x18e5a10 entry = 0x1892ac0 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "gabble_vcard_manager_request" #3 0x0000000000470eb2 in aliases_request_basic_pep_cb (self=0x125a0d0, msg=0x0, user_data=0x1f, error=0x7fffcb695f30) at conn-aliasing.c:259 source = GABBLE_CONNECTION_ALIAS_FROM_JID handle = 31 #4 0x0000000000471135 in pep_request_cb (conn=0x125a0d0, msg=0x0, user_data=0x18e4980, error=0x7fffcb695f30) at conn-aliasing.c:326 ctx = 0x18e4980 #5 0x00000000004ae79b in gabble_request_pipeline_dispose (object=0x122a900) at request-pipeline.c:247 self = 0x122a900 priv = 0x122a920 disconnected = {domain = 626, code = 5, message = 0x5430e0 "Request failed because connection became disconnected"} item = 0x1935b60 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "gabble_request_pipeline_dispose" #6 0x00007f653eee8d8a in g_object_unref () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 No symbol table info available. #7 0x0000000000474f66 in gabble_connection_dispose (object=0x125a0d0) at connection.c:1105 _tp_clear_pointer_tmp = 0x122a900 self = 0x125a0d0 base = 0x125a0d0 priv = 0x125a2e0 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "gabble_connection_dispose" #8 0x00007f653eee8d8a in g_object_unref () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 No symbol table info available. #9 0x00000000004f67ce in pep_reply_cb (source=0x126c190, res=0x129d120, user_data=0x125a0d0) at conn-location.c:106 conn = 0x125a0d0 reply_msg = 0x0 error = 0x18d66b0 from = 0x122fac0 "" __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "pep_reply_cb" #10 0x00000000004cf334 in send_query_cb (source=0x15703c0, res=0x129d180, user_data=0x129d120) at wocky-pep-service.c:296 result = 0x129d120 error = 0x18d6640 reply = 0x0 #11 0x00007f653f3acbb9 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0 No symbol table info available. #12 0x00007f653e420342 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 No symbol table info available. #13 0x00007f653e4242a8 in ?? () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 No symbol table info available. #14 0x00007f653e4247b5 in g_main_loop_run () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 No symbol table info available. #15 0x00007f653f97d4cf in tp_run_connection_manager () from /usr/lib/libtelepathy-glib.so.0 No symbol table info available. #16 0x000000000042e2c3 in gabble_main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffcb696418) at gabble.c:150 loader = 0x1229af0 out = 0 #17 0x000000000042df59 in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffcb696418) at main.c:28