xfce4-notifyd crashed after closing lid on laptop

[Jimmy Sjölund]

Original Summary: xfce4-notifyd crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_cast()

My power settings are set to lock screen when I close the lid on my laptop. This morning I closed the lid and when the next time opened the lid and put in my password

jimmy@jimmy-eeepc-saucy:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu Saucy Salamander (development branch)
Release: 13.10

jimmy@jimmy-eeepc-saucy:~$ apt-cache policy xfce4-notifyd
xfce4-notifyd:
  Installed: 0.2.4-2
  Candidate: 0.2.4-2
  Version table:
 *** 0.2.4-2 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
to unlock the screen the error window was already there.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: xfce4-notifyd 0.2.4-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-2.1-lowlatency 3.11.0-rc5
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-2-lowlatency i686
ApportVersion: 2.12-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Aug 19 08:49:36 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/xfce4/notifyd/xfce4-notifyd
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-08-16 (2 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Studio 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Alpha i386 (20130811)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/xfce4/notifyd/xfce4-notifyd
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xb705545c <g_type_check_instance_cast+44>: mov (%eax),%eax
 PC (0xb705545c) ok
 source "(%eax)" (0xaaaaaaaa) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%eax" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: xfce4-notifyd
StacktraceTop:
 g_type_check_instance_cast () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? ()
 ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: xfce4-notifyd crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_cast()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm audio cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 g_type_check_instance_cast (type_instance=type_instance@entry=0xb7bfe030, iface_type=3082738912) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.37.5/./gobject/gtype.c:4008
 notify_show_window (window=window@entry=0xb7bfe030) at xfce4-notifyd/xfce-notify-daemon.c:871
 g_idle_dispatch (source=source@entry=0xb7bd79f8, callback=0xb77bcbd0 <notify_show_window>, user_data=0xb7bfe030) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.37.5/./glib/gmain.c:5250
 g_main_dispatch (context=0xb7bc9a08) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.37.5/./glib/gmain.c:3065
 g_main_context_dispatch (context=context@entry=0xb7bc9a08) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.37.5/./glib/gmain.c:3641

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Thaddaeus Tintenfisch (thad-fisch-deactivatedaccount)]

Do you still experience this crash?

[Jimmy Sjölund (jimmy-sjolund)]

I believe it was solved later on. However my eee-pc broke and nowadays I run 14.04 without any issues on another laptop.

[Thaddaeus Tintenfisch (thad-fisch-deactivatedaccount)]

Please file a new report if you manage to trigger this crash again. Thanks.