FaceTime Crashes Upon Answering, 10.6.8 Snow Leopard

[rusticmountain]

SYSTEM SETUP:

Apple iMac "Core 2 Duo" 2.16 20-Inch

Identifiers: Late 2006 - MA589LL - iMac5,1 - A1207 - 2118


4 GB of RAM (667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, PC2-5300)

1 TB (7200 RPM) Serial ATA hard drive


OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8

FaceTime 1.0.5


Clean installation of OS X Snow Leopard fully updated to 10.6.8 and a fresh installation of FaceTime 1.0.5 from the Apple App Store. Nothing else on the system.


PROBLEM: Every time I make a FaceTime call and the other person answers, FaceTime crashes. Every time someone calls me via FaceTime and I try to answer, FaceTime crashes. Below I have cut and pasted what I believe are the relevant parts of the crash report (just the first part and the “Crashed Thread” it indicates is where the problem is occurring).


QUESTION: My understanding is that FaceTime should work on this setup (I believe that’s actually why you can still download FaceTime from the App Store for $0.99). Any suggestions on what the problem is? How I can fix this problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated!


CRASH REPORT:


Process: FaceTime [133]

Path: /Applications/FaceTime.app/Contents/MacOS/FaceTime

Identifier: com.apple.FaceTime

Version: 1.0.5 (170)

Build Info: FT_Monaco-1700000~1

App Item ID: 414307850

App External ID: 565452681

Code Type: X86-64 (Native)

Parent Process: launchd [87]



Date/Time: 2018-04-21 16:15:20.851 -0700

OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)

Report Version: 6



Interval Since Last Report: 2551 sec

Crashes Since Last Report: 1

Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 595 sec

Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 1

Anonymous UUID: 9543D272-BF92-4EA0-B91D-8FB32829BCF5



Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)

Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000008

Crashed Thread: 16





Thread 16 Crashed:

0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff81c70e20 strcmp + 80

1 ...ple.viceroymonaco.framework 0x00000001002c9cb8 -[VCCallMgr setMatchedFeaturesString:remoteFeaturesString:remoteUserAgent:] + 200

2 ...ple.viceroymonaco.framework 0x000000010036e728 -[VideoConferenceMultiController(VCInitiateConference_Private) initiateConferenceCallUsingConnectionDataWithErrorInfoToUser:withRemoteVCConnectionData:withLocalVCConnectionDataneWayOnly:errorInfo:shouldFindExternalIP:shouldUnwrapBlob:iceResult:] + 7512

3 ...ple.viceroymonaco.framework 0x000000010036a08d -[VideoConferenceMultiController(VCInitiateConference_Private) initiateConferenceToUserWithVCConnectionDataProc:] + 861

4 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff8006e114 __NSThread__main__ + 1429

5 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff81ca6fd6 _pthread_start + 331

6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff81ca6e89 thread_start + 13

 

[Larsvonhier]

I have a similar setup on an old machine here but I cannot even log in with facetime (1.0.5) onto my account.
All I get is the error message "The server reports an error while processing a request, please try again later".

My understanding is also that it should still work, I also called Apple service today and they confirmed that there is no exclusion of FaceTime 1.0.5 running on Snow Leopard as of today, as long as one uses 10.6.6 and upwards.
The hint from service was to reset NV-RAM, but this does not help here, still the server error is all I get.