unity-control-center crashed with signal 5 in _XReply() when opening unity-control-center

[Drew Walton]

Using most updated versions of everything on 14.04 LTS daily, whenever I open unity-control-center it crashes. This is what I get when trying to open it using Terminal:

libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast

(unity-control-center:8303): Gdk-ERROR **: The program 'unity-control-center' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length erro'.
  (Details: serial 304 error_code 16 request_code 155 minor_code 1)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the GDK_SYNCHRONIZE environment
   variable to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)

/etc/lsb-release:
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu Trusty Tahr (development branch)"

apt-cache policy unity-control-center:
unity-control-center:
  Installed: 14.04.3+14.04.20140310-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 14.04.3+14.04.20140310-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 14.04.3+14.04.20140310-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: unity-control-center 14.04.3+14.04.20140310-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-17.37-generic 3.13.6
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-17-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.13.3-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Mar 12 16:15:49 2014
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/unity-control-center
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-03-12 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140312)
ProcCmdline: unity-control-center sound
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: unity-control-center
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
 _XReply () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mesa/libGL.so.1
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mesa/libGL.so.1
Title: unity-control-center crashed with signal 5 in _XReply()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
usr_lib_unity-control-center:
 activity-log-manager 0.9.7-0ubuntu10
 deja-dup 29.5-0ubuntu2

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Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #1291397, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.