Bug 675173 – empathy-chat crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance() on send file to google talk contact

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Bug 675173 - empathy-chat crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance() on send file to google talk contact


Summary:	empathy-chat crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance() on send file to ...


Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE

Product:	empathy
Classification:	Core
Component:	File Transfer
Version:	3.4.x
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	Normal critical
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	empathy-maint
QA Contact:	empathy-maint

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Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2012-04-30 17:53 UTC by Bilal Shahid
Modified:	2013-01-08 10:05 UTC

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Description Bilal Shahid 2012-04-30 17:53:43 UTC

Originally reported at:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/954826
also affecting 3.4.1

1) lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu precise (development branch)
Release:	12.04

2) apt-cache policy empathy
empathy:
  Installed: 3.3.90.2-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.3.90.2-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.3.90.2-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3) I expected to be able to send files to my google talk contacts

4) The first two times I tried nothing happened after I pressed send in the select file dialog, the last time the programs crashed. The crash also ahppened to me yesterday.

Let me know if you need extra information.

Regards Kenneth

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04

Comment 1 Bilal Shahid 2012-04-30 17:53:59 UTC

+ Trace 230152

Thread 1 (Thread 0x7f968e9629c0 (LWP 11305))

#0 g_type_check_instance
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.20/./gobject/gtype.c line 4075
#1 g_signal_emit_valist
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.20/./gobject/gsignal.c line 3083
#2 g_signal_emit
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.20/./gobject/gsignal.c line 3352
#3 check_hashing
at empathy-ft-handler.c line 1214
#4 ft_handler_gfile_ready_cb
at empathy-ft-handler.c line 1295
#5 g_simple_async_result_complete
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.20/./gio/gsimpleasyncresult.c line 744
#6 complete_in_idle_cb_for_thread
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.20/./gio/gsimpleasyncresult.c line 812
#7 g_main_dispatch
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.20/./glib/gmain.c line 2510
#8 g_main_context_dispatch
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.20/./glib/gmain.c line 3047
#9 g_main_context_iterate
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.20/./glib/gmain.c line 3118
#10 g_main_context_iterate
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.20/./glib/gmain.c line 3055
#11 g_main_context_iteration
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.20/./glib/gmain.c line 3179
#12 g_application_run
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.20/./gio/gapplication.c line 1496
#13 main
at empathy-chat.c line 166

Comment 2 TLE 2012-04-30 19:26:28 UTC

I originally reported this in Launchpad. Let me know if you need anything extra.

\Kenneth

Comment 3 subhadip.sky 2012-04-30 19:28:05 UTC

This bug also affects me.

Comment 4 subhadip.sky 2012-05-02 00:40:32 UTC

If you choose jabber when creating a new account and then create an account with a gmail id, then the file transfer is happening with google contacts.

Comment 5 Guillaume Desmottes 2012-05-02 08:44:08 UTC

Do you know the client used by the contact you were trying to send a file to?

Comment 6 TLE 2012-05-02 09:21:32 UTC

(In reply to comment #5)
> Do you know the client used by the contact you were trying to send a file to?

He also uses empathy, what ever version is present in the latest stable version of fedora. I can check it for you if you need to know.

Comment 7 TLE 2012-05-02 09:22:26 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)
> If you choose jabber when creating a new account and then create an account
> with a gmail id, then the file transfer is happening with google contacts.

That is nice to know. Still, doing when creating a gtalk account should also work, so it is still a bug.

Comment 8 Guillaume Desmottes 2012-05-03 12:11:56 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)
> If you choose jabber when creating a new account and then create an account
> with a gmail id, then the file transfer is happening with google contacts.

It shouldn't matter.

I didn't manage to reproduce this crash; could you please:
- Quit Empathy
- Start it using:  EMPATHY_DEBUG=all /usr/bin/empathy
- Try to reproduce the bug and check if any error/warning is displayed

Comment 9 jsphslgr 2012-05-08 22:57:05 UTC

I am having the same error. With debugging enabled I get the following error:

telepathy-gabbl[3158]: segfault at 24 ip 00007f3154703517 sp 00007fff14b54f40 error 4 in libnice.so.10.0.1[7f31546f8000+2b000]

and a second time,

telepathy-gabbl[3207]: segfault at 322 ip 00007f9547ee7517 sp 00007fff08034ff0 error 4 in libnice.so.10.0.1[7f9547edc000+2b000]

Comment 10 Guillaume Desmottes 2012-09-13 09:26:27 UTC

Any chance you could report this gabble crash if it still happens with a recent version?

Comment 11 Tobias Mueller 2013-01-08 10:05:57 UTC

josejuan05, TLE, subhadip.sky or Bilal, please file a new bug if this happens with a newer version. Thanks.