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empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in empathy_audio_sink_set_volume()

Bug #427579 reported by Laurent Claessens
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Empathy
Fix Released
Critical
empathy (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: empathy

Crash during the connection process of an audio call.
Crash occures 100% time when an audio call is open.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Fri Sep 11 00:00:01 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
Package: empathy 2.27.92-0ubuntu2
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/empathy
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.30-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xc25124 <empathy_audio_sink_set_volume+52>: mov 0x8(%eax),%eax
 PC (0x00c25124) ok
 source "0x8(%eax)" (0x00000008) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%eax" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: empathy
StacktraceTop:
 empathy_audio_sink_set_volume ()
 g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__DOUBLE ()
 g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in empathy_audio_sink_set_volume()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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Laurent Claessens (moky-math) wrote :
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Laurent Claessens (moky-math) wrote :

The Empathy wich who I opened an audio call had a crash in the same time which is reported here :
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/427582

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : Stacktrace.txt (retraced)

StacktraceTop:empathy_audio_sink_set_volume (sink=0x0,
IA__g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__DOUBLE (closure=0x9178cd8,
IA__g_closure_invoke (closure=0x9178cd8, return_value=0x0,
signal_emit_unlocked_R (node=<value optimized out>,
IA__g_signal_emit_valist (instance=0x8ff29a0,

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : ThreadStacktrace.txt (retraced)
Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: removed: need-i386-retrace
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report, the issue has been sent to the software writters, https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594906

visibility: private → public
Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
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Changed in empathy:
status: Unknown → New
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Guillaume Desmottes (cassidy) wrote :

empathy_audio_sink_set_volume is called on a NULL EmpathyGstAudioSink. Not sure
how that can happen. Would be good to have Empathy logs. Could you please start
empathy with EMPATHY_DEBUG=all ?

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Changed in empathy:
status: New → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package empathy - 2.28.0-0ubuntu1

---------------
empathy (2.28.0-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  [ Ken VanDine ]
  * debian/patches/20_libindicate.patch:
    - Updated patch to set "draw-attention" (LP: #433999)
    - Updated patch to set the avatar in the indicator (LP: #434209)

  [ Iain Lane ]
  * New upstream release 2.28.0 (LP: #434264)
   - Empathy theme doesn't work (and opens a folder in Nautilus!)
   - icq accounts import from pidgin not working
   - Invalid read when terminating an audio call
   - Room auto-connect doesn't work
   - using *_run_* calls prevents quitting Empathy
   - Chat windows don't show when we are reconnected
   - Use GOptionContext to parse options
   - Empathy misbehaviour
   - Empathy forgets IRC bookmarks
   - Empathy 2.27.92 fails to build
   - asserts in empathy_idle_set_presence() after suspend/resume
   - empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in empathy_account_settings_get_uint32() (Guillaume Desmottes)
   - cannot add yahoo account (Frédéric Péters)
   - Empathy crashing with CSW (Danielle Madeley)
   - empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in empathy_audio_sink_set_volume() (LP: #427579)
   - empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in tp_contact_list_got_added_members_cb()
   - Doesn't respawn existing channel when trying to reopen it
   - crash when dragging user from roster to MUC window
   - Pasting text into a disconnected chat window crashes (Cosimo Cecchi)
   - EmpathyIdle should wait for account manager to be ready
   - double click on a contact should raise the window
  * debian/patches/20_libindicate.patch: Update for new code
  * debian/patches/99_autoconf.patch: Refresh (autoreconf -f -i -s)

 -- Iain Lane <email address hidden> Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:19:48 +0100

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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Anton Gladky (gladky-anton) wrote :

I have just got this crash. The system is Karmic Beta and is up to date.

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Changed in empathy:
importance: Unknown → Critical
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