at-spi2-registryd crashed with signal 5 in g_type_create_instance()

[Jason]

opened software center and was informed of various crashes

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: at-spi2-core 2.1.91-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx wl
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 20 22:44:32 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/at-spi2-core/at-spi2-registryd
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110901)
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/at-spi2-core/at-spi2-registryd --use-gnome-session
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: at-spi2-core
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 g_type_create_instance () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: at-spi2-registryd crashed with signal 5 in g_type_create_instance()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-16 (4 days ago)
UserGroups:

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 spi_set_display (display_name=<optimized out>) at display.c:46
 spi_set_display (display_name=<optimized out>) at display.c:37
 spi_get_display () at display.c:55
 spi_device_event_controller_init (device_event_controller=0xca91e0) at deviceeventcontroller.c:2733
 g_type_create_instance (type=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.92/./gobject/gtype.c:1885

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

Upstrea bug for this found here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660407

[Callum Williams (thegooball)]

This crashes every time I boot-up.
It's getting very annoying :)

[Kaloyan Grancharov (k-grancharov)]

It happened when I started Orca Screen Reader for first time 5 min ago. But only the first time.

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/936286

[Christopher (soft-kristal)]

Happened on first boot after upgrading Precise to Quantal.

[Zack Curl (zackcurl)]

Happened on first boot after upgrade from 12.04.01 to 12.10

[Laura Czajkowski (czajkowski)]

Happening to me today on upgrade from 12.04.01 to 12.10

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

There has been no activity on this bug upstream. I've prodded the upstream maintainer directly to see if we can get some action on this.