gnome-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in g_simple_async_result_complete()

[Sasa Paporovic]

This crasher happends out of nothing.

Unfortunally I can not provite a reliable reproducing procedure.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: gnome-settings-daemon 3.6.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.7.0-3.9-generic 3.7.0-rc6
Uname: Linux 3.7.0-3-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Sun Nov 25 10:18:16 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-07-22 (125 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120722)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no username)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f3f98618046: cmpq $0x0,(%rdi)
 PC (0x7f3f98618046) ok
 source "$0x0" ok
 destination "(%rdi)" (0x00000151) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/libmedia-keys.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/libmedia-keys.so
 g_simple_async_result_complete () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
 g_simple_async_result_complete () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
Title: gnome-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in g_simple_async_result_complete()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2012-11-15 (9 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo vboxusers
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2170): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid uninstantiatable type `(null)' in cast to `GsdMediaKeysManager'
 gnome-session[2090]: WARNING: Application 'gnome-settings-daemon.desktop' killed by signal 11

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #1082723, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-settings-daemon - 3.6.3-0ubuntu2

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gnome-settings-daemon (3.6.3-0ubuntu2) raring; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/16_use_synchronous_notifications.patch:
    - don't segfault when using the screen hotkey (lp: #1082856)
  * debian/patches/53_update_schemas_warning.patch:
    - don't list the updates schemas it's not used in ubuntu (lp: #1082986)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:28:45 +0100