[xsettings]: gnome-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in notify_have_shell()

[Veit Girke]

occured when watching video with smplayer.

screen wnt black. no mouse, no escape-button.

hard shutdown needed. i wrote this error-message after reboot.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gnome-settings-daemon 3.8.6.1-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-5.20-generic 3.13.0
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-5-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Tue Jan 28 23:11:25 2014
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-22 (5 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Beta i386 (20130925.1)
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/false
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xb4e1f12a: mov (%eax),%eax
 PC (0xb4e1f12a) ok
 source "(%eax)" (0xdae81488) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%eax" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/libxsettings.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
 ffi_call_SYSV () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6
 ffi_call () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6
Title: [xsettings]: gnome-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in ffi_call_SYSV()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-01-23 (5 days ago)
UserGroups:

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

This crash has the same stack trace characteristics as bug #1232419. However, the latter was already fixed in an earlier package version than the one in this report. This might be a regression or because the problem is in a dependent package.

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 notify_have_shell (manager=0x8afa738) at gsd-xsettings-manager.c:717
 actually_do_call (client=<optimized out>, connection=<optimized out>, name_owner=0x8cda0e0 ":1.10", call_type=CALL_TYPE_NAME_VANISHED) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.39.3/./gio/gdbusnamewatching.c:164
 do_call (client=0x8b21670, call_type=CALL_TYPE_NAME_VANISHED) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.39.3/./gio/gdbusnamewatching.c:216
 ffi_call_SYSV () at ../src/x86/sysv.S:65
 ffi_call (cif=<optimized out>, cif@entry=0xbfaa4764, fn=<optimized out>, rvalue=<optimized out>, avalue=<optimized out>, avalue@entry=0xbfaa46b0) at ../src/x86/ffi.c:411

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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