[Pkg-telepathy-maintainers] Bug#744078: Bug#744078: empathy: Empathy crashes at start

[Guilhem Bonnefille]

Thanks for the quick answer.


2014-04-10 10:42 GMT+02:00 Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org>:

>
> I think this is most likely to be a Folks bug; reassigning.
>
> On 09/04/14 20:57, Guilhem Bonnefille wrote:
> > Core was generated by `empathy'.
> > Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
> > #0  0x00007f2c22793bd4 in ?? () from
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
> > (gdb) where
> > #0  0x00007f2c22793bd4 in ?? () from
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
> > #1  0x00007f2c227966c9 in g_date_time_to_timezone ()
> >    from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
> > #2  0x00007f2c2279673c in g_date_time_to_utc ()
> >    from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
> > #3  0x00007f2bf54aa302 in _edsf_persona_update ()
> >    from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfolks-eds.so.25
> > #4  0x00007f2bf54ab9fe in ?? ()
> >    from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfolks-eds.so.25
> > #5  0x00007f2c22a7f2e4 in ?? ()
> >    from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
>
> I can't reproduce this crash. Please install debugging symbols for at
> least GLib and folks (packages: libglib2.0-0-dbg, libfolks-eds-dbg,
> libfolks-dbg) and try to get a backtrace again. Using the gdb command
> "thread apply all bt full" instead of "where" might also provide useful
> information.
>

I don't know how to use the -dbg version of the libs. Something to change
in the environment?


> You can probably see this crash without Empathy by installing
> folks-tools and running folks-inspect. If it doesn't crash immediately,
> wait a few seconds; if it still hasn't crashed, type "individuals" at
> the prompt and see whether that crashes. If folks-inspect crashes, then
> it's confirmed to be a Folks bug.
>

I confirm: folks-inspect crashes immediately.


> Upgrading libfolks25, libfolks-eds25 and related packages to the version
> from unstable (0.9.6-3) might also be useful.
>

Such change is quite sensible: synaptic proposes to remove gnome.


> If you run empathy from a command-line (gnome-terminal or similar), do
> you get any warnings before it crashes?
>

No


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