Since it manifest itself even for a newly created user (with no configuration files whatsoever); Since this critical bug for empathy doesn't get more attention, which means only a handful of people are affected; Since I upgraded from Jaunty (long time ago, Karmic Alpha 1) and kept upgrading; I can safely infer that the trouble comes from a leftover library/file/whatever in the day to day upgrade process.
The solution is simple and it comes back to the Windows days: reinstall. I will loose nothing, all my data and configuration is in my home partition. I will be back with a report after the not so painful process. P.S. Before taking this route, please check that the bug is not in your local configuration files. If it crashes for a newly created user, it is in the system configuration (reinstall). If it works for a newly created user, it is in your user settings (clean your user configuration, difficult to know what to delete). P.P.S. I think there are two bugs in this report: one is with the indicator, the other one is with empathy-main-window.ui (comment 15) -- empathy crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/450290 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
