gnome-control-center crashed with SIGSEGV in maybe_add_app_id()

[William Biggs]

open gnome-control-center . then try to set night light

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.26.1-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-15.16-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Oct 12 16:23:02 2017
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-12 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170926)
ProcCmdline: gnome-control-center --overview
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x5593df67e4e5: cmpb $0x0,(%rbx)
 PC (0x5593df67e4e5) ok
 source "$0x0" ok
 destination "(%rbx)" (0x40000002) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: gnome-control-center crashed with SIGSEGV in g_closure_invoke()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 maybe_add_app_id (canonical_app_id=0x40000002 <error: Cannot access memory at address 0x40000002>, panel=0x5593e1ad0e10) at cc-notifications-panel.c:368
 children_changed (settings=<optimized out>, key=<optimized out>, panel=0x5593e1ad0e10) at cc-notifications-panel.c:548
 g_closure_invoke (closure=0x5593e1d0a560, return_value=0x0, n_param_values=2, param_values=0x7ffcf3402630, invocation_hint=0x7ffcf34025b0) at ../../../../gobject/gclosure.c:804
 signal_emit_unlocked_R (node=node@entry=0x5593e15ab3f0, detail=detail@entry=4534, instance=instance@entry=0x5593e1c75b50, emission_return=emission_return@entry=0x0, instance_and_params=instance_and_params@entry=0x7ffcf3402630) at ../../../../gobject/gsignal.c:3635
 g_signal_emit_valist (instance=0x5593e1c75b50, signal_id=<optimized out>, detail=4534, var_args=var_args@entry=0x7ffcf3402800) at ../../../../gobject/gsignal.c:3391

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Reported upstream https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/issues/75

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue was fixed in 3.30 upstream, could be worth SRUing back to bionic, https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/merge_requests/120

(The e.u.c reports confirms that's the case https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/3a5b4bfcb598ac34a0b6249c7ce3787819dd2065)