[Pkg-telepathy-maintainers] Bug#588613: empathy do not start: segmentation fault

[Eric Veiras Galisson]

Le 26/07/2010 14:50, Simon McVittie a écrit :
> On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 at 10:40:12 +0200, Eric Veiras Galisson wrote:
>    
>> Starting program: /usr/bin/empathy
>> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
>>
>> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>> 0x00007ffff7e588be in XF86DRIQueryVersion () from /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
>>      
> Does this still occur with current testing versions of everything? If it
> does, please install debug symbols (I think empathy-dbg, libclutter-1.0-dbg,
> libclutter-gtk-0.10-dbg, libgl1-mesa-glx-dbg might all be useful here),
> then try running Empathy under gdb (as you did), then when it crashes,
> type:
>
>      thread apply all bt
>
> This should hopefully give us enough information to find out where the bug is
> (I suspect it's not actually in Empathy).
>
> Thanks,
>      Simon
>    

Hi,

this is what I got doing what you said

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$ gdb empathy
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.1-debian
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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.
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This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
Reading symbols from /usr/bin/empathy...Reading symbols from 
/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/empathy...done.
done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/empathy
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff419b8be in XF86DRIQueryVersion () from /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
(gdb) thread apply all bt

Thread 1 (Thread 0x7ffff7ea0840 (LWP 9969)):
#0  0x00007ffff419b8be in XF86DRIQueryVersion () from /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
#1  0x00007ffff419ba59 in XF86DRIQueryExtension () from /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
#2  0x00007ffff419b38c in ?? () from /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
#3  0x00007ffff417b118 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
#4  0x00007ffff4172d6a in glXQueryVersion () from /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
#5  0x00007ffff43c618e in clutter_backend_glx_post_parse (backend=0x6fd000,
     error=0x7fffffffe740) at clutter-backend-glx.c:110
#6  0x00007ffff4381490 in clutter_init_real (error=0x7fffffffe740)
     at ./clutter-main.c:1537
#7  0x00007fffef4bf899 in g_option_context_parse () from 
/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#8  0x000000000043f563 in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffe868) at 
empathy.c:608
(gdb)

Thread 1 (Thread 0x7ffff7ea0840 (LWP 9969)):
#0  0x00007ffff419b8be in XF86DRIQueryVersion () from /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
#1  0x00007ffff419ba59 in XF86DRIQueryExtension () from /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
#2  0x00007ffff419b38c in ?? () from /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
#3  0x00007ffff417b118 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
#4  0x00007ffff4172d6a in glXQueryVersion () from /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
#5  0x00007ffff43c618e in clutter_backend_glx_post_parse (backend=0x6fd000,
     error=0x7fffffffe740) at clutter-backend-glx.c:110
#6  0x00007ffff4381490 in clutter_init_real (error=0x7fffffffe740)
     at ./clutter-main.c:1537
#7  0x00007fffef4bf899 in g_option_context_parse () from 
/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#8  0x000000000043f563 in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffe868) at 
empathy.c:608
(gdb)
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I hope this can help.

I forgot to tell that when running from a newly created user (with an 
empty home directory), the crash occurs too.

Thanks.