--- a/loudmouth/lm-connection.c	Sat Feb 24 03:22:53 2007 +0100
+++ b/loudmouth/lm-connection.c	Sat Feb 24 03:26:02 2007 +0100
@@ -1135,6 +1135,10 @@
 	gsize    bytes_read;
 	gboolean hangup;
 
+	if (connection->io_channel == NULL) {
+		return FALSE;
+	}
+
 	while (connection_read_incoming (connection, buf, IN_BUFFER_SIZE,
 					 &bytes_read, &hangup)) {
 		g_log (LM_LOG_DOMAIN, LM_LOG_LEVEL_NET, "\nRECV [%d]:\n",