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Bug 685832 - empathy-chat crashed with SIGSEGV in _dbus_counter_adjust_size()
empathy-chat crashed with SIGSEGV in _dbus_counter_adjust_size()
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: Chat
3.6.x
Other Linux
: Normal critical
: ---
Assigned To: empathy-maint
empathy-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-10-09 18:43 UTC by Bilal Shahid
Modified: 2012-10-14 19:28 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Bilal Shahid 2012-10-09 18:43:52 UTC 
Originally reported at:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1061268

I just booted up my Ubuntu system and tried to start Empathy (from the panel message menu). Then I got this error.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: empathy 3.6.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-16.25-generic 3.5.4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-16-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Oct  3 23:10:44 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/empathy/empathy-chat
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120823.1)
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/empathy/empathy-chat
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f493dd257d0:	mov    0x8(%rdi),%rax
 PC (0x7f493dd257d0) ok
 source "0x8(%rdi)" (0x00000008) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rax" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: empathy
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3
 dbus_connection_send_with_reply () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3
Title: empathy-chat crashed with SIGSEGV in dbus_connection_send_with_reply()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-09-30 (3 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
Comment 1 Bilal Shahid 2012-10-09 18:44:10 UTC 



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Trace
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  • 
#0
_dbus_counter_adjust_size

    
                at ../../dbus/dbus-resources.c
                  line
                  151

    

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  • 
#1
_dbus_message_add_counter_link

    
                at ../../dbus/dbus-message.c
                  line
                  306

    

    • 

  • 
#2
_dbus_connection_send_preallocated_unlocked_no_update

    
                at ../../dbus/dbus-connection.c
                  line
                  1990

    

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  • 
#3
_dbus_connection_send_unlocked_no_update

    
                at ../../dbus/dbus-connection.c
                  line
                  3222

    

    • 

  • 
#4
dbus_connection_send_with_reply

    
                at ../../dbus/dbus-connection.c
                  line
                  3423

    

    • 

  • 
#5
_tp_dbus_daemon_list_names_common

    
                at dbus-daemon.c
                  line
                  1160

    

    • 

  • 
#6
tp_dbus_daemon_list_names

    
                at dbus-daemon.c
                  line
                  1212

    

    • 

  • 
#7
empathy_chat_window_init

    
                at empathy-chat-window.c
                  line
                  2453

    

    • 

  • 
#8
g_type_create_instance

    
                at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.34.0/./gobject/gtype.c
                  line
                  1890

    

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  • 
#9
g_object_constructor

    
                at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.34.0/./gobject/gobject.c
                  line
                  1854

    

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  • 
#10
g_object_newv

    
                at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.34.0/./gobject/gobject.c
                  line
                  1637

    

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  • 
#11
g_object_new

    
                at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.34.0/./gobject/gobject.c
                  line
                  1547

    

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  • 
#12
empathy_chat_window_new

    
                at empathy-chat-window.c
                  line
                  1453

    

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  • 
#13
empathy_chat_window_present_chat

    
                at empathy-chat-window.c
                  line
                  2718

    

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  • 
#14
process_tp_chat

    
                at empathy-chat-manager.c
                  line
                  206

    

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  • 
#15
handle_channels

    
                at empathy-chat-manager.c
                  line
                  245

    

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  • 
#16
handle_channels

    
                at simple-handler.c
                  line
                  223

    

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  • 
#17
handle_channels_context_prepare_cb

    
                at base-client.c
                  line
                  2382

    

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  • 
#18
g_simple_async_result_complete

    
                at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.34.0/./gio/gsimpleasyncresult.c
                  line
                  775

    

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  • 
#19
context_check_prepare

    
                at handle-channels-context.c
                  line
                  554

    

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  • 
#20
hcc_channel_prepare_cb

    
                at handle-channels-context.c
                  line
                  627

    

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  • 
#21
g_simple_async_result_complete

    
                at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.34.0/./gio/gsimpleasyncresult.c
                  line
                  775

    

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  • 
#22
complete_in_idle_cb

    
                at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.34.0/./gio/gsimpleasyncresult.c
                  line
                  787

    

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  • 
#23
g_main_dispatch

    
                at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.34.0/./glib/gmain.c
                  line
                  2715

    

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  • 
#24
g_main_context_dispatch

    
                at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.34.0/./glib/gmain.c
                  line
                  3219

    

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  • 
#25
g_main_context_iterate

    
                at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.34.0/./glib/gmain.c
                  line
                  3290

    

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  • 
#26
g_main_context_iteration

    
                at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.34.0/./glib/gmain.c
                  line
                  3351

    

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  • 
#27
g_application_run

    
                at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.34.0/./gio/gapplication.c
                  line
                  1620

    

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  • 
#28
main

    
                at empathy-chat.c
                  line
                  162

    

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Comment 2


Guillaume Desmottes





          2012-10-11 13:34:59 UTC
        



Looks like either a libdbus bug or, more likely, a memory corruption. Is that reproducible?






Comment 3


Bilal Shahid





          2012-10-14 17:24:07 UTC
        



bug is solved with the updates can not reproduce it any more