Thanks for reporting this bug. The code in which this crash happened for you was rewritten in r391. I'm pretty sure that rewrite also fixed this bug as a side effect.
** Changed in: indicator-messages (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to indicator-messages in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1217014 Title: indicator-messages-service crashed with SIGSEGV in g_bit_lock() Status in “indicator-messages” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: indicator-messages-service was crashed, when pidgin session is worked ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: indicator-messages 13.10.1+13.10.20130822.5-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-3.8-generic 3.11.0-rc6 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-3-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.12.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: i386 Date: Mon Aug 26 19:49:12 2013 ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/indicator-messages/indicator-messages-service InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-07-26 (30 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Alpha i386 (20130726) MarkForUpload: True ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/indicator-messages/indicator-messages-service SegvAnalysis: Segfault happened at: 0xb7381060 <g_bit_lock+64>: lock bts %ebp,(%esi) PC (0xb7381060) ok source "%ebp" ok destination "(%esi)" (0x00000010) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)! SegvReason: writing NULL VMA Signal: 11 SourcePackage: indicator-messages StacktraceTop: g_bit_lock () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 g_variant_n_children () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 g_variant_get_child_value () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 ?? () ?? () Title: indicator-messages-service crashed with SIGSEGV in g_bit_lock() UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-messages/+bug/1217014/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp