I can confirm this, and I'm not running gnome-shell. $ uname -r 3.0.0-9-generic
$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu oneiric (development branch) Release: 11.10 Codename: oneiric Empathy Version: 3.1.5.1-1ubuntu1 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/830045 Title: empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in g_memdup() Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: 1> Release - Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 3 - using Gnome 3 Shell Description: Ubuntu oneiric (development branch) Release: 11.10 2> empathy: Installed: 3.1.5-1ubuntu1 Candidate: 3.1.5-1ubuntu1 Version table: *** 3.1.5-1ubuntu1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3> I expected Empathy to continue running quietly in the background, it did not. . . 4> Empathy had been running in the background and suddenly quit unexpectedly with the following information. ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: empathy 3.1.5-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.11-generic 3.0.1 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Aug 20 07:18:14 2011 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110803.1) ProcCmdline: empathy ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SegvAnalysis: Segfault happened at: 0x7f147cb4af57: mov 0x60(%rsi),%r11 PC (0x7f147cb4af57) ok source "0x60(%rsi)" (0x01ade000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)! destination "%r11" ok SegvReason: reading unknown VMA Signal: 11 SourcePackage: empathy StacktraceTop: ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 g_memdup () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 empathy_avatar_new () ?? () g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0 Title: empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in g_memdup() UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/830045/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp