nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in _gdk_pixbuf_new_from_uri_at_scale()

[Iain Lane]

Browsing to /usr/share/backgrounds

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.8.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-8.15-generic 3.11.1
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-8-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.4-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Sep 26 10:55:52 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'1188x689+1665+174'"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'sidebar-width' b'168'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-07 (353 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Beta amd64 (20121007)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/nautilus --no-default-window
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f715aa061c0 <sem_post>: mov (%rdi),%eax
 PC (0x7f715aa061c0) ok
 source "(%rdi)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%eax" ok
 Stack memory exhausted (SP below stack segment)
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: nautilus
StacktraceTop:
 g_log_set_handler (log_domain=0x0, log_levels=893418256, log_func=0x7f71180029b0, user_data=0x7f7118000030) at /build/glib2.0-v4qoRF/glib2.0-2.38.0/./glib/gmessages.c:523
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
SystemImageInfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'system-image-cli'
Title: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in g_log_set_handler()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-05-07 (142 days ago)
UserGroups: adm autopilot cdrom dip kvm libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo vboxusers
modified.conffile..etc.xdg.autostart.nautilus.autostart.desktop: [modified]
mtime.conffile..etc.xdg.autostart.nautilus.autostart.desktop: 2013-06-12T15:42:43.845869

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 _gdk_pixbuf_new_from_uri_at_scale (uri=uri@entry=0x301c0d0 "file:///usr/share/backgrounds/edubuntu_default.png", width=width@entry=256, height=height@entry=256, preserve_aspect_ratio=1) at gnome-desktop-thumbnail.c:469
 gnome_desktop_thumbnail_factory_generate_thumbnail (factory=<optimized out>, uri=0x301c0d0 "file:///usr/share/backgrounds/edubuntu_default.png", mime_type=<optimized out>) at gnome-desktop-thumbnail.c:1223
 thumbnail_thread_start (data=<optimized out>) at nautilus-thumbnails.c:546
 start_thread (arg=0x7f7135409700) at pthread_create.c:311
 __GI___sysctl (name=0x7f7135409700, nlen=1, oldval=0x7f7118001450, oldlenp=0x0, newval=0x0, newlen=140124266169076) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sysctl.c:32

[Iain Lane (laney)]

Seems this is to do with python-nautilus somehow; purging this made the crash go away