I have installed libcairo2-dbg and checked that empathy-debugger crash that jaywink noted:
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. composite_aligned_boxes (boxes=0x7fffffffc150, extents=0x7fffffffc570, compositor=0x7fffefe5f3a0 <compositor.16156>) at /build/buildd/cairo-1.12.14/src/cairo-traps-compositor.c:1276 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1095962 Title: Empathy GUI does not start To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/1095962/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs