gnome-boxes crashed with SIGSEGV in boxes_vm_creator_guest_installed_os()

[Tobiasz Jarczyk]

gnome-boxes crashed after opening

$ gnome-boxes

(gnome-boxes:10007): Boxes-WARNING **: libvirt-broker.vala:83: Failed to start storage pool: cannot stat file '/home/dotnokato/.local/share/gnome-boxes/images/fedora20': Permission denied

(gnome-boxes:10007): Libvirt.GObject-WARNING **: (libvirt-gobject-storage-pool.c:568):gvir_storage_pool_get_volume: code should not be reached

(gnome-boxes:10007): Libvirt.GObject-CRITICAL **: gvir_storage_vol_get_info: assertion 'GVIR_IS_STORAGE_VOL(vol)' failed
Naruszenie ochrony pamięci (core dumped)

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gnome-boxes 3.8.4-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.12.0-7.15-generic 3.12.4
Uname: Linux 3.12.0-7-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.7-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Thu Dec 12 20:39:09 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-boxes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-15 (57 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131015)
ProcCmdline: gnome-boxes
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x474750: cmpq $0xfffff,0x10(%rax)
 PC (0x00474750) ok
 source "$0xfffff" ok
 destination "0x10(%rax)" (0x00000010) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-boxes
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 g_simple_async_result_complete () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
 ?? ()
 g_simple_async_result_complete () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
Title: gnome-boxes crashed with SIGSEGV in g_simple_async_result_complete()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2013-11-05 (37 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Tobiasz Jarczyk (dotnokato-q)]

It has crashed because I had previously run gnome-boxes as root (sudo gnome-boxes), this changed owner of the folder ~/.local/share/gnome-boxes/images to root instead of current user.

Simply chowning this folder to current user fixed the issue.

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 boxes_vm_creator_guest_installed_os (machine=0x2f17500, self=0x32580e0) at /extra-data/checkout/gnome/gnome-boxes/src/vm-creator.vala:218
 boxes_vm_creator_on_machine_state_changed (self=0x32580e0, object=<optimized out>, pspec=0x0) at /extra-data/checkout/gnome/gnome-boxes/src/vm-creator.vala:147
 boxes_vm_creator_continue_installation_co (_data_=0x2f217f0) at /extra-data/checkout/gnome/gnome-boxes/src/vm-creator.vala:110
 g_simple_async_result_complete (simple=0x3348b20) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.39.1/./gio/gsimpleasyncresult.c:777
 boxes_media_manager_create_installer_media_from_config_co (_data_=0x2e7acf0) at /extra-data/checkout/gnome/gnome-boxes/src/media-manager.vala:68