Confirmed. Killing telepathy-butterfly worked.
empathy 2.34.0-0ubuntu3.1
empathy-common2.34.0-0ubuntu3.1
Linux pas-ThinkPad-SL510 2.6.38-11-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 29
19:02:55 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 11.04
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 335029 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/335029
** Attachment added: CoreDump.gz
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23652329/CoreDump.gz
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23652330/Dependencies.txt
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