Not only it crashes, after that the newly created account is inoperable. As a workaround you could create a Jabber account with your Google Talk credentials and enter "gmail.com" as a resource.
Alternatively - just use Pidgin until this is fixed. -- empathy-accounts crashed with SIGSEGV in free() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/641065 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs