Linux empathy shuts abruptly

[Yondaime]

Recently i came across this new problem .. every time i try to add a new contact in empathy it closes abruptly without any crash handler or error message ???
any one experiencing stuff like this ??
what do i do ????
using fedora 10 kde 4.2
found this while running from konsole
** (empathy:4779): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_connection_get_connection: assertion `gconnection' failed
process 4779: arguments to dbus_connection_get_data() were incorrect, assertion "connection != NULL" failed in file dbus-connection.c line 5758.
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
Aborted
any ideas wat is wrong

 

[Dark Star]

File a bug at GNOME Bug Tracking System , have you tried using it in Gnome environment its a Gnome application after all.. Might some Kapps interfering process... ?

 

[Yondaime]

oh koool looks like that is the only option

 

[vishalrao]

One way to try to get a hint is to run empathy from a command terminal...

First try running "empathy --help" to see if there is a debug logging option, then run it with that option so it should log debug output to the terminal..

Or you could look in /var/log for existing clues...

We recently discovered a problem like this with Pidgin which would crash when someone logged in via WIndows program called Miranda-IM which was sending malformed data!

 

[vishalrao]

Doh, just realised you already ran in konsole...

Can you try adding contacts while offline then try it while online?

Any other logs above the connection!=NULL log...

When I tried running gnome nm-applet it would fail because it couldnt find gnome-keyring-daemon which after installing worked fine...