diff -r 5a1ebffca81a -r 10ada0d1c7d7 src/irc_log.c
--- a/src/irc_log.c	Thu Apr 02 02:55:32 2009 +0300
+++ b/src/irc_log.c	Thu Apr 02 02:55:59 2009 +0300
@@ -480,18 +480,28 @@
     // update our state to mark ourselves as unloading
     ctx->unloading = true;
     ctx->module = module;
+    
+    if (TAILQ_EMPTY(&ctx->channels)) {
+        // nothing to do, unloaded now
+        module_unloaded(module);
 
-    // stop logging each channel
-    TAILQ_FOREACH(chan_ctx, &ctx->channels, ctx_channels) {
-        irc_log_chan_stop(chan_ctx);
+    } else {
+        // stop logging each channel
+        TAILQ_FOREACH(chan_ctx, &ctx->channels, ctx_channels) {
+            irc_log_chan_stop(chan_ctx);
+        }
+
+        // once they have all stopped, we will be unloaded
     }
-    
+
     // wait for all the channels to be stopped, which will call irc_log_stopped
     return SUCCESS;
 }
 
 /**
- * We can safely destroy the evsql instance from here, since we're outside of any callbacks from this module
+ * We can safely destroy the evsql instance from here, since we're outside of any callbacks from this module.
+ *
+ * Note that we might not have had any of the config options called...
  */
 static void irc_log_destroy (void *_ctx)
 {
@@ -499,8 +509,9 @@
 
     log_debug("destroying the irc_log_ctx");
 
-    // destroy the evsql instance
-    evsql_destroy(ctx->db);
+    if (ctx->db)
+        // destroy the evsql instance
+        evsql_destroy(ctx->db);
 
     // ...no more
     free(ctx);