[Pkg-telepathy-maintainers] Bug#635185: empathy: Segfaults (might be related to GLX/clutter)

[Laurent Bigonville]

Le Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:59:03 +0200,
Rainer Dorsch <rdorsch at web.de> a écrit :

> Am Wednesday, 27. July 2011 schrieben Sie:
> > Le Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:46:47 +0200,
> [...]
> Hmm....when I run empathy in gdb using
> -> gdb empathy
> then
> -> run
> inside gdb, then the empathy window hangs when I expect the segfault
> and I cannot switch anymore to another window inside KDE. I have to
> kill empathy first in a virtual terminal.
> 
> Is there a better way to get a backtrace?

You should then try to reproduce the crash and type:

thread apply all bt full

You can find more information at: 
https://live.gnome.org/Empathy/FAQ and
https://live.gnome.org/Empathy/Debugging

> > Could you also try with the version in experimental?
> 
> Do you mean libgl1-mesa-dri or any of the packages above?

I was thinking about empathy itself, empathy 2.30 (currently in
testing/unstable) is rather old...

Cheers

Laurent Bigonville