Restarting dbus crashes Epiphany

[amd@…]

Restarting dbus service makes Epiphany crash:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1492932944 (LWP 20821)]
dbus_connection_get_is_connected (connection=0x0) at dbus-connection.c:1986
1986    dbus-connection.c: No such file or directory.
        in dbus-connection.c
(gdb) bt thread
#0  dbus_connection_get_is_connected (connection=0x0) at dbus-connection.c:1986
#1  0xa7168dd1 in avahi_client_is_connected (client=0x837d1a8) at client.c:865
#2  0xa716be97 in avahi_service_browser_free (b=0x8165a48) at browser.c:700
#3  0xa7168e58 in avahi_client_free (client=0x837d1a8) at client.c:610
#4  0xa7bacd77 in avahi_client_callback (client=0x837d1a8,
    state=AVAHI_CLIENT_FAILURE, userdata=0x837d138) at gnome-vfs-dns-sd.c:747
#5  0xa7168f98 in client_set_state (client=0x837d1a8, state=100) at client.c:97
#6  0xa716a2f0 in filter_func (bus=0x837d6d8, message=0x8166300,
    userdata=0x837d1a8) at client.c:296
#7  0xa7500988 in dbus_connection_dispatch (connection=0x837d6d8)
    at dbus-connection.c:3629
#8  0xa716ef48 in dispatch_timeout_callback (t=0x837d820, userdata=0x81799e8)
    at ../avahi-common/dbus-watch-glue.c:101
#9  0xa717c1cb in dispatch_func (source=0x837d138, callback=0, userdata=0x0)
    at glib-watch.c:242
#10 0xa74a1e99 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#11 0xa74a3af4 in g_main_context_iterate () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#12 0xa74a4752 in g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#13 0xa776b6ac in gtk_main () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#14 0x0807baf5 in main (argc=2, argv=0xafe295d4) at ephy-main.c:780

See also:::

 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334970
 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6522

Unfortunately I do not have access to this machine at the moment to see the exact version numbers .

[amd@…]

Doesn't crash anymore with Gentoos: sys-apps/hal-0.5.7-r3 sys-apps/dbus-0.61-r1

[lennart]

This is a known issue with Avahi <= 0.6.9. It has been fixed in r1193 (which is included in 0.6.10). See #26 for details.