empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in empathy_account_settings_get_account() when editing an account name

Bug #437111 reported by Gionn
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This bug affects 25 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Empathy
Fix Released
Critical
empathy (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: empathy

I was in account settings changing the name of an account, after confirming the new name with enter, empathy crashed.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Sep 26 12:06:56 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
Package: empathy 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcCmdline: empathy
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fadcc12a500 <empathy_account_settings_get_account>: mov 0x18(%rdi),%rax
 PC (0x7fadcc12a500) ok
 source "0x18(%rdi)" (0x00000018) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rax" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: empathy
StacktraceTop:
 empathy_account_settings_get_account ()
 ?? ()
 g_closure_invoke ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_signal_emit_valist ()
Title: empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in empathy_account_settings_get_account()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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Gionn (giovanni.toraldo) wrote :
visibility: private → public
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : Stacktrace.txt (retraced)

StacktraceTop:empathy_account_settings_get_account (settings=0x0)
accounts_dialog_account_display_name_changed_cb (
g_closure_invoke ()
?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
g_signal_emit_valist ()

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : ThreadStacktrace.txt (retraced)
Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: removed: need-amd64-retrace
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=597416

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

This has been fixed upstream now, thanks for reporting.

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package empathy - 2.28.1-1ubuntu1

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empathy (2.28.1-1ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * debian/libempathy-gtk28.symbols:
    - updated to list new symbols

  [ Ken VanDine ]
  * New upstream release (LP: #455763)
    - asserts in empathy_idle_set_presence() after suspend/resume (LP: #433108)
    - empathy crashed when dnding an avatar image (LP: #446393)
    - crash with SIGSEGV in contact_list_store_iface_setup() (LP: #448580)
    - copy/paste is broken
    - crash with SIGSEGV in empathy_account_settings_get_default(LP: #424903)
    - crash with SIGSEGV in tp_contact_list_got_added_members_cb (LP: #427684)
    - libnotify chat bubbles aren't displayed once the first bubble disappeared
    - Info dialog says "Edit contact information"
    - libempathy header files are wrong
    - crash with SIGSEGV in empathy_account_settings_get_account (LP: #437111)
    - Crash when CM crashes during a channel request
    - Presence chooser shouldn't be sensitive when there are no accounts
    - Use pretty names for protocol in account display names
    - Changing display name can crash empathy
    - empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in
      empathy_call_window_audio_input_level_changed_cb() (LP: #442756)
    - empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in
      empathy_call_window_got_self_contact_cb() (LP: #447301)
    - Empathy start isn't idempotent
  * debian/patches/20_libindicate.patch
    - updated to apply cleanly
  * debian/patches/99_autoconf.patch
    - updated to apply cleanly
  * debian/libempathy30.symbols
    - Added symbol

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:45:22 +0200

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in empathy:
importance: Unknown → Critical
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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