[hardy] time-admin crashed with SIGSEGV in strcmp()

[Fernando Miguel]

Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools

when opening time and date, it will crash.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Wed Jan 9 13:41:44 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/time-admin
NonfreeKernelModules: cdrom
Package: gnome-system-tools 2.21.3-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: time-admin
ProcCwd: /home/bugabundo
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-system-tools
Stacktrace:
 #0 0xb76fec1a in strcmp () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 #1 0xb794296d in ?? () from /usr/lib/liboobs-1.so.4
 #2 0x0839ddf0 in ?? ()
 #3 0x00000000 in ?? ()
StacktraceTop:
 strcmp () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/liboobs-1.so.4
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
Title: time-admin crashed with SIGSEGV in strcmp()
Uname: Linux rhino 2.6.24-3-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 3 23:30:29 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom crontab davfs2 dialout dip fax floppy fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev sambashare scanner ssh users video

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:strcmp () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
get_runlevel (config=<value optimized out>, runlevel=0x0) at oobs-servicesconfig.c:170
oobs_services_config_update (object=0x8215468) at oobs-servicesconfig.c:257
update_object_from_message (object=0x8215468, message=0x809f610) at oobs-object.c:347
async_message_cb (pending_call=0x8227f20, data=0x8237b78) at oobs-object.c:418

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, is your dbus running? can you attach the ~/.xsession-errors file to the report?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

On Wednesday 06 February 2008 17:34:13 Pedro Villavicencio wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
> any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue
> for you? Thanks in advance.

$ sudo time-admin
(time-admin:30874): Gtk-WARNING **: Unsupported tag for GtkWidget: atkproperty
(time-admin:30874): Gtk-WARNING **: Unsupported tag for GtkWidget: atkproperty
(time-admin:30874): Gtk-WARNING **: Unknown property: GtkCalendar.display-options
** (time-admin:30874): CRITICAL **: Unable to lookup session information for process '30874'
Segmentation fault

I guess I'm...

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[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

Fernando Pereira wrote:
> $ sudo time-admin

Don't start time-admin with sudo. It now uses policykit for authentication, so
just start it with "time-admin" and then authenticate clicking on the Unlock button.

Does this still happen if you do that?

[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

$ time-admin
(time-admin:32330): Gtk-WARNING **: Unsupported tag for GtkWidget: atkproperty
(time-admin:32330): Gtk-WARNING **: Unsupported tag for GtkWidget: atkproperty
(time-admin:32330): Gtk-WARNING **: Unknown property: GtkCalendar.display-options
Segmentation fault

still crashing!!

on a side note: lots of old users will still try to use sudo/gksu/gksudo/dkesudo on hardy. this should some way make more visible, for older users.

[Basilio Kublik (sourcercito)]

Hi Fernando
I couldn't reproduce this under Hardy Heron, do you still get a crash if you do the same using a new user account?

Thanks in advance.

[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

$ date
Fri Feb 29 13:12:30 WET 2008

$ time-admin
(time-admin:31236): Gtk-WARNING **: Unsupported tag for GtkWidget: atkproperty
(time-admin:31236): Gtk-WARNING **: Unsupported tag for GtkWidget: atkproperty
(time-admin:31236): Gtk-WARNING **: Unknown property: GtkCalendar.display-options
Segmentation fault

should I annex a gdb trace?

[Carlos Garnacho (carlosg)]

What's the output of "runlevel"? it's really strange that it isn't detecting your current one.

[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

On Friday 29 February 2008 14:11:30 Carlos Garnacho wrote:
> What's the output of "runlevel"? it's really strange that it isn't detecting your current one.

$ runlevel
unknown

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[Carlos Garnacho (carlosg)]

There's something fishy in your system then :)

I'll commit a change to deal better with this situation though

[Juksu (jluostar)]

jpl@lap:~$ time-admin

(time-admin:30507): Gtk-WARNING **: Unsupported tag for GtkWidget: atkproperty
(time-admin:30507): Gtk-WARNING **: Unsupported tag for GtkWidget: atkproperty
(time-admin:30507): Gtk-WARNING **: Unknown property: GtkCalendar.display-options

jpl@lap:~$ runlevel
N 2

jpl@lap:~$ uname -a
Linux lap 2.6.24-16-generic #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 12:47:45 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Ovidiu (ovidiuliuta)]

Just to confirm, i still get this error message when i try to start the time-admin manager, my computer is running x64 version of Ubuntu

>>time-admin

(time-admin:9459): Gtk-WARNING **: Unsupported tag for GtkWidget: atkproperty
(time-admin:9459): Gtk-WARNING **: Unsupported tag for GtkWidget: atkproperty
(time-admin:9459): Gtk-WARNING **: Unknown property: GtkCalendar.display-options
** (time-admin:9459): CRITICAL **: Failed to execute program /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success

>>runlevel

N 2

>>tail /proc/version

Linux version 2.6.24-16-generic (buildd@yellow) (gcc version 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)) #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 12:47:45 UTC 2008

Regards, Ovidiu

[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

I no longer have this problem.
If Ovidiu doesn't either, this ticket can be closed.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

closing it then, thanks for reporting.

[Tux (peter-hoogkamer)]

This bug returns on Karmic Alpha 3 on x64.

[Asbjorno (asbjorn-syverhuset)]

Confirm on Karmic Alpha 3, x64

[Simon Francesco (simonlampen)]

This bug occurs on Karmic Alpha 3 on x86.
The timezone shows null even though /etc/timezone reports a valid timezone.
The timezone dropdown list is empty.
The timezone image is corrupt (shows as most black rather than a picture of the world).