[Pkg-telepathy-maintainers] Bug#485928: empathy: segfault at start

[Xavier Bestel]

Package: empathy
Version: 0.23.1-1
Severity: important


Hi,

empathy currently segfaults at startup, systematically.
What's strange is that under gdb, it just doesn't start:

[xav at bip:~]$ ** (empathy:3853): DEBUG: mission_control_get_presence_actual: MC not running.
** (empathy:3853): DEBUG: mission_control_get_presence_message_actual: MC not running.
** (empathy:3853): DEBUG: mission_control_get_online_connections: MC not running.
** (empathy:3853): DEBUG: mission_control_get_connection_status: MC not running.
** (empathy:3853): DEBUG: mission_control_get_connection_status: MC not running.
** (empathy:3853): DEBUG: mission_control_get_connection_status: MC not running.
** (empathy:3853): DEBUG: mission_control_get_connection_status: MC not running.
** (empathy:3853): DEBUG: mission_control_get_connection_status: MC not running.
** (empathy:3853): DEBUG: mission_control_get_connection_status: MC not running.
** (empathy:3853): DEBUG: mission_control_get_connection_status: MC not running.
** (empathy:3853): DEBUG: mission_control_get_tpconnection: MC not running.
** (empathy:3853): DEBUG: mission_control_get_tpconnection: MC not running.
** (empathy:3853): DEBUG: mission_control_get_tpconnection: MC not running.
** (empathy:3853): DEBUG: mission_control_get_tpconnection: MC not running.
** (empathy:3853): DEBUG: mission_control_get_tpconnection: MC not running.
** (empathy:3853): DEBUG: mission_control_get_tpconnection: MC not running.
** (empathy:3853): DEBUG: mission_control_get_tpconnection: MC not running.

[1]+  Erreur de segmentation  empathy
[xav at bip:~]$ gdb empathy
GNU gdb 6.8-debian
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
(no debugging symbols found)
(gdb) r
Starting program: /usr/bin/empathy 
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0xb67cc960 (LWP 3946)]

Program exited normally.
(gdb) q


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages empathy depends on:
ii  libaspell15                0.60.5-2.2    GNU Aspell spell-checker runtime l
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.22.0-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0               2.22.0-1      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                      2.7-12        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                  1.6.4-4       The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3                1.2.1-2       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2           0.76-1        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libebook1.2-9              2.22.2-1      Client library for evolution addre
ii  libedataserver1.2-9        2.22.2-1      Utility library for evolution data
ii  libempathy-gtk12           0.23.1-1      High-level library and user-interf
ii  libempathy12               0.23.1-1      High-level library and user-interf
ii  libgconf2-4                2.22.0-1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                1:2.6.2-1     library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.16.3-2      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                2.22.0-1      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.12.10-2     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libmissioncontrol-client0  4.65-2        Library to interact with Telepathy
ii  liborbit2                  1:2.14.13-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.20.2-2      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                   1.10-3        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libtelepathy-glib0         0.7.10-1      Telepathy framework - GLib library
ii  libtelepathy2              0.3.3-1       Telepathy framework - old GLib lib
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.1.4-2     X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                    2.6.32.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library

Versions of packages empathy recommends:
ii  telepathy-gabble              0.7.6-1    Jabber/XMPP connection manager
ii  telepathy-salut               0.3.3-1    Link-local XMPP connection manager
ii  telepathy-stream-engine       0.5.3-1    stream handler for the Telepathy f

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