system crashed when attempting to set default browser to chromium

[Peter Pfeiffer]

Unable to change default browser

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu29
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.10.0-2.9-generic 3.10.0
Uname: Linux 3.10.0-2-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.10.2-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Tue Jul 2 20:27:37 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-05-16 (47 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Alpha amd64 (20130514)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: gnome-control-center info
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fc681de7767 <g_slice_alloc+167>: mov (%rbx),%rax
 PC (0x7fc681de7767) ok
 source "(%rbx)" (0x00000004) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rax" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
StacktraceTop:
 g_slice_alloc () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_slist_prepend () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0
Title: gnome-control-center crashed with SIGSEGV in g_slice_alloc()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
 activity-log-manager-control-center 0.9.4-0ubuntu6.1
 deja-dup 27.3.1-0ubuntu1
 gnome-control-center-signon 0.1.7~daily13.06.18-0ubuntu1
 gnome-control-center-unity 1.3daily13.06.14.1-0ubuntu1

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 magazine_chain_pop_head (magazine_chunks=0x7fc684ef3660) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.37.3/./glib/gslice.c:545
 thread_memory_magazine1_alloc (tmem=<optimized out>, ix=0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.37.3/./glib/gslice.c:848
 g_slice_alloc (mem_size=mem_size@entry=16) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.37.3/./glib/gslice.c:1007
 g_slist_prepend (list=0x7fc6851c6ac0, data=0x7fc685418270) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.37.3/./glib/gslist.c:267
 prepend_and_ref_widget (widget=<optimized out>, data=0x7fff20471158) at /build/buildd/gtk+3.0-3.8.2/./gtk/gtktooltip.c:700

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The bug hasn't seen any activity in years and there has been no recent similar reports, the code also changed quite a lot since and it's likely the issue doesn't exist anymore. Closing, feel free to open a new report if you still get problems in recent Ubuntu versions