GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 595980
Segfault when starting in Emapthy 2.28
Last modified: 2009-09-23 13:35:58 UTC
I'm using Kubuntu (karmic) with the ppa of telapathy activated. I get a segfaut when I launch empathy. Here is the result in gbd. +++++++++++++++++ GDB output ++++++++++++++ $ gdb empathy [...] Reading symbols from /usr/bin/empathy...(no debugging symbols found)...done. (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/bin/empathy [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x006fcc93 in g_type_check_instance () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (gdb) bt
+ Trace 217767
++++++++++++++++End of gdb output++++++++++++++++++++++ I already installed a lot of dbg packages. Please, let me know which one I have to install in order to provide a better backtrace.
Created attachment 143785 [details] The log of Valgrind with no crash
I have some strange news. After installation of Karmic-alpha-6 + update + dist-upgrade + installation of Empathy, everything worked fine. Now, I only installed a bunch of packages and I got the crash again. Thus the trigger seems to be in one of the following : ispell htop empathy python-empathy gnome-keyring telepathy-gnome firefox adblock-plus beagle beaglefs mozilla-beagle thunderbird thunderbird-locale-it thunderbird-locale-fr latex-beamer pgf glosstex kile texlive-fonts-extra dvi2ps lmodern kbibtex tex4ht gsfonts gsfonts-X11 vim-latexsuite vim-doc vim-gnome vim-addon-manager dvdrip vobcopy imagemagick konq-kim mjpegtools gnuplot gnuplot-doc gnuplot-X11 tomboy zenity verbiste verbiste-gnome gparted traceroute scponly ssh openssh-server dpkg-dev apt-show-versions sshfs pdftk kgpg boinc-client boinc-manager boinc k3b-i18n aspell-fr language-support-fr language-pack-gnome-fr language-pack-kde-fr language-pack-fr kde-i18n-fr ifrench language-pack-it kde-i18n-it language-pack-kde-it language-pack-gnome-it language-support-it aspell-it emerald compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-fusion-plugins-extra compiz-fusion-plugins-main soprano-backend-sesame tracker tracker-search-tool tracker-utils clive python-pyvorbis vorbis-tools python-gnuplot pavucontrol pavumeter marble plasma-wallpapers-addons soundkonverter icedtea6-plugin octave-linear-algebra octave3.2 system-config-printer-gnome An other point : when I launch Empathy in Valgring, as far as I tested,everything is fine (but, obviously, very slow). I attached the log, but unfortunaly(?) this log does not describe a cession with segfault. This behaviour (segfault when launched in terminal and fine in valgrid) is reproducible.
I got the trace :
+ Trace 217788
For information : deb http://ddebs.ubuntu.com/ karmic main restricted universe multiverse and then, the packages *-dbgsym. In particular empathy-dbgsym
This new backtrace indicates¹ that it crash because of an ubuntu-specific patch. ¹ ahah, libindicate patch! Closing as INVALID, but please forward to launchpad ;-)
Forwarded to Launchpad : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/435262