gnome-control-center crashed with SIGSEGV in convert_alpha()

[dino99]

Get that crash when i click on : System Settings -> Background : first that screen is greyed & shrank, then it crashed

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.8.3-0ubuntu1~saucy2 [origin: LP-PPA-gnome3-team-gnome3]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-7.13-generic 3.11.0
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-7-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.12.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Sep 12 07:20:03 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: gnome-control-center --overview
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xb45983b1 <gdk_pixbuf_get_from_surface+353>: mov 0x0(%ebp,%edi,1),%eax
 PC (0xb45983b1) ok
 source "0x0(%ebp,%edi,1)" (0xb972b000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%eax" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
StacktraceTop:
 gdk_pixbuf_get_from_surface () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgdk-3.so.0
 ?? ()
 g_simple_async_result_complete () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
 g_simple_async_result_complete () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
Title: gnome-control-center crashed with SIGSEGV in gdk_pixbuf_get_from_surface()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
 deja-dup 27.3.1-0ubuntu1
 gnome-control-center-unity 1.3daily13.06.14.1-0ubuntu1

[Ubuntu GNOME (ug-bot)]

StacktraceTop:
 convert_alpha (height=1080, width=1920, src_y=0, src_x=0, src_stride=7680, src_data=0xb972abd8 "", dest_stride=7680, dest_data=0x9c29b208 "") at /build/buildd/gtk+3.0-3.9.14/./gdk/gdkpixbuf-drawable.c:162
 gdk_pixbuf_get_from_surface (surface=surface@entry=0xb95953d8, src_x=src_x@entry=0, src_y=src_y@entry=0, width=1920, height=1080) at /build/buildd/gtk+3.0-3.9.14/./gdk/gdkpixbuf-drawable.c:269
 on_screenshot_finished (source=0xb92fc070, res=0xb94df788, user_data=0xb9645340) at cc-background-panel.c:313
 socket_source_dispatch (source=0xb962e930, callback=0xbf8f8e08, user_data=0xb4442fc9) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.37.7~git20130829.11254b3c/./gio/gsocket.c:3256
 g_simple_async_result_set_check_cancellable (simple=0xb92ce120, check_cancellable=0x0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.37.7~git20130829.11254b3c/./gio/gsimpleasyncresult.c:1101

[Christian Kirbach (christian-kirbach-e)]

This crash only happens with the ATI catalyst proprietary video driver provided by Ubuntu-partners repository.

ii fglrx 2:13.101-0ubun amd64 Video driver for the AMD graphics accelerat

[Christian Kirbach (christian-kirbach-e)]

hmm nope, this also happens with the free video drivers

[Sophoklis Goumas (olspookishmagus)]

This also happens with NVIDIA proprietary display driver, too.
Thus it would be safe to say, this is not dependent on the display driver.

[dino99 (9d9)]

This does not happen anymore with a clean install; so that issue can be closed as it seems a transitional trouble.