[apport] sylpheed-claws-gtk2 crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_is_a()

[Pete Jewell]

Binary package hint: sylpheed-claws-gtk2

Has happened twice so far.

First time I'd just added a nntp account, selected Subscribe to bring up the newsgroup list, selected one, and then clicked on it's folder. Got a header count, and then a few moments later it crashed.

Second time I'd just started the client. Allowed it to d/l messages from main email account (gmail), then selected the newsgroup folder in the left hand pane (comp.databases.pick). Crashed a few moments later.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Tue Apr 3 22:06:05 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/sylpheed-claws-gtk2
Package: sylpheed-claws-gtk2 2.6.0-1.1ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: sylpheed-claws-gtk2
ProcCwd: /home/pete/GoogleMail/inbox
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: sylpheed-claws-gtk2
StacktraceTop:
 g_type_check_instance_is_a ()
 gtk_widget_destroy () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
 notification_popup_msg ()
 notification_new_unnotified_msgs ()
 ?? ()
Uname: Linux pete-laptop 2.6.20-13-386 #2 Sun Mar 25 00:18:53 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev scanner video

[Pete Jewell (boredbypolitics)]

Here's a Valgrind log of running it and accessing the comp.databases.pick group.

Running under valgrind there is no crash.

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:IA__g_type_check_instance_is_a (type_instance=0x8912ce0, iface_type=137362232) at gtype.c:3115
IA__gtk_widget_destroy (widget=0x8912ce0) at gtkwidget.c:2166
?? ()
?? ()
?? ()

[Pete Jewell (boredbypolitics)]

Just tried it with strace. Managed to access comp.databases.pick without a crash, so tried adding rec.autos.sport.f1.moderated, and got the crash on accessing the folder of the newly subscribed group. Strace log attached.

[Pete Jewell (boredbypolitics)]

I think this problem is being caused by the multi-notifier plugin, as removing it has cured the problem.

pete@pete-laptop:~$ apt-cache showpkg sylpheed-claws-gtk2-multi-notifier
Package: sylpheed-claws-gtk2-multi-notifier
Versions:
2.6.0-1 (/var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_feisty_universe_binary-i386_Packages) (/var/lib/dpkg/status)
 Description Language:
                 File: /var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_feisty_universe_binary-i386_Packages
                  MD5: f09aaed9346a3785bb1e01dc68952b27

Reverse Depends:
  sylpheed-claws-gtk2-multi-notifier-dbgsym,sylpheed-claws-gtk2-multi-notifier 2.6.0-1
  sylpheed-claws-gtk2-extra-plugins,sylpheed-claws-gtk2-multi-notifier 2.6.0-1
Dependencies:
2.6.0-1 - libc6 (2 2.5-0ubuntu1) sylpheed-claws-gtk2 (2 2.6.0)
Provides:
2.6.0-1 -
Reverse Provides:

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 or 9.04?

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!