diff -up vinagre-2.28.1/vinagre/vinagre-connect.c.history-crash vinagre-2.28.1/vinagre/vinagre-connect.c
--- vinagre-2.28.1/vinagre/vinagre-connect.c.history-crash	2010-01-04 20:37:20.282194058 -0500
+++ vinagre-2.28.1/vinagre/vinagre-connect.c	2010-01-04 20:37:29.269077172 -0500
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ saved_history (void)
     {
       history_from_file = g_strsplit (file_contents, "\n", 0);
       len = g_strv_length (history_from_file);
-      if (strlen (history_from_file[len-1]) == 0)
+      if (len > 0 && strlen (history_from_file[len-1]) == 0)
 	{
 	  g_free (history_from_file[len-1]);
 	  history_from_file[len-1] = NULL;