Don't crash when the seemingly impossible occurs. IOW, try to handle khc's crash, even though I don't see how this is possible. (gdb) f 4 #4 0x00007f268bd61e11 in jabber_caps_ext_iqcb (js=0x2ac4700, from=0x4a3c550 "maiku@jabber.org/Telepathy", type=JABBER_IQ_RESULT, id=0x31b1240 "purpleb9d3d882", packet=0x55e3220, data=0x497d6f0) at caps.c:552 552 g_hash_table_insert(node_exts->exts, g_strdup(userdata->name), features); (gdb) p node_exts $2 = (JabberCapsNodeExts *) 0x0 (gdb) bt #0 0x00007f2693f53fb5 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x00007f2693f55bc3 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x000000000049366b in sighandler (sig=11) at gtkmain.c:195 #3 <signal handler called> #4 0x00007f268bd61e11 in jabber_caps_ext_iqcb (js=0x2ac4700, from=0x4a3c550 "maiku@jabber.org/Telepathy", type=JABBER_IQ_RESULT, id=0x31b1240 "purpleb9d3d882", packet=0x55e3220, data=0x497d6f0) at caps.c:552 #10 0x00007f268bd56d3d in jabber_parser_process (js=0x2ac4700, buf=0x7f268bf7a980 "<iq from='maiku@jabber.org/Telepathy' to='khc@hxbc.us/Home' type='result' id='purpleb9d3d882'> <query node='http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/caps#voice-v1' xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/disco#info"..., len=279) at parser.c:227 $4 = (JabberCapsClientInfo *) 0x4a8bcd0 p *((ext_iq_data*)data)->data->info $6 = { identities = 0x0, features = 0x4a41580, forms = 0x0, exts = 0x0, tuple = { node = 0x3d2ff20 "http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/caps", ver = 0x31aa850 "0.6.2.1", hash = 0x0 } }