fast-user-switch-applet crashed with signal 5 in pthread_getspecific()

[mabovo]

Binary package hint: fast-user-switch-applet

After installing KDM due to window-manager wasn't detected and yelp doesn't show any help.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Aug 11 16:30:09 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/fast-user-switch-applet/fast-user-switch-applet
NonfreeKernelModules: cdrom
Package: fast-user-switch-applet 2.18.0-1ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/fast-user-switch-applet/fast-user-switch-applet --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_FastUserSwitchApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=24
ProcCwd: /
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=pt_BR:pt:en
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: fast-user-switch-applet
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 pthread_getspecific ()
Title: fast-user-switch-applet crashed with signal 5 in pthread_getspecific()
Uname: Linux katrina 2.6.22-9-generic #1 SMP Fri Aug 3 00:50:37 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse plugdev scanner
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xb751fd2b <g_logv+667>: jmp 0xb751fcbc <g_logv+556>
 PC (0xb751fd2b) ok
 source "0xb751fcbc" (0xb751fcbc) ok
 Reason could not be automatically determined.
SegvReason: Reason could not be automatically determined.

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:gdm_run_queue (dummy=0x0) at gdm-queue.c:244
g_idle_dispatch (source=0x80c4418, callback=0, user_data=0x0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.13.7/glib/gmain.c:4131
IA__g_main_context_dispatch (context=0x8084e68) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.13.7/glib/gmain.c:2061
g_main_context_iterate (context=0x8084e68, block=1, dispatch=1, self=0x805d538) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.13.7/glib/gmain.c:2694
IA__g_main_loop_run (loop=0x80a95f0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.13.7/glib/gmain.c:2898

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. For using fast-user-switch-applet you need to have a gdm session running, it you don't have one it will not work.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

this was fixed in hardy but bug 257613 its a duplicate with intrepid, re opening.

[Zartan (mattik-deactivatedaccount)]

I started fast-switch-user-applet when I had kdm running. After this it tried reload applet some times and closed. I'm now using gdm, but still I don't have this applet. I don't find command where I could start applet and try will it crash with gdm, too. Sound playback applet crashed, too. So I don't know is it some universal error.

[Chris Bainbridge (chris-bainbridge)]

Is bug #320240 the same bug? KDM and Gnome should be compatible - if the fast-user-switch feature does not work, then is should be silently disabled; we should not be getting an error popup saying that an application has crashed every time we log in. Which is what currently happens with Jaunty.

Is this bug the same as bug 290509 ?

[Ian! D. Allen (idallen)]

fast-switch-user-applet also crashes (signal 5) if you've stopped GDM and try to start Gnome with "startx" from
a console prompt. It needs a more graceful mode of exit if GDM isn't available!

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

This package has been removed from Ubuntu. Closing all related bugs.