gnumeric crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_is_a()

[Ponce Aitor]

Started Gnumeric on Lubuntu 13.10 (Updated Lubuntu 13.04 through update-manager -d), clicked on the link to gnumeric's Website (About dialog), closed the dialog, tried to open Preferences, then crashed...

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: gnumeric 1.12.6-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-4.9-generic 3.11.0-rc7
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-4-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.12.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Sep 7 05:45:46 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnumeric
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-09-05 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release i386 (20130423.1)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: gnumeric
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xb6cbae2e <g_type_check_instance_is_a+78>: testb $0x4,0xe(%edi)
 PC (0xb6cbae2e) ok
 source "$0x4" ok
 destination "0xe(%edi)" (0xffff010a) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnumeric
StacktraceTop:
 g_type_check_instance_is_a () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 go_option_menu_select_item () from /usr/lib/libgoffice-0.10.so.10
 go_option_menu_set_menu () from /usr/lib/libgoffice-0.10.so.10
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgoffice-0.10.so.10
 go_font_sel_set_font_desc () from /usr/lib/libgoffice-0.10.so.10
Title: gnumeric crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_is_a()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-09-07 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm audio cdrom dialout dip fax floppy fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare sudo tape video

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 g_type_check_instance_is_a (type_instance=type_instance@entry=0xb8b4d7b0, iface_type=iface_type@entry=3094646640) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.37.6/./gobject/gtype.c:3975
 go_option_menu_select_item (option_menu=option_menu@entry=0xb88e6190, item=0xb8b51ae8) at gtk/go-optionmenu.c:131
 go_option_menu_set_menu (option_menu=0xb88e6190, menu=menu@entry=0xb8b46880) at gtk/go-optionmenu.c:336
 reload_faces (gfs=gfs@entry=0xb8ae0088) at gtk/go-font-sel.c:359
 go_font_sel_set_family (fs=fs@entry=0xb8ae0088, font_name=0xb8b54638 "Ubuntu") at gtk/go-font-sel.c:1440

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Mariano Draghi (chaghi)]

Y can confirm this also affects Ubuntu 13.10 beta, with Oct 3rd updates.

[Jean Bréfort (jean-brefort-normalesup)]

This looks like https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709438 which has been fixed upstream.