brightness applet crashes on login

[Hristo Hristov]

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

Every time I login the brightness applet crashes. This also happens in Debian unstable.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jan 19 02:15:25 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-brightness-applet
NonfreeKernelModules: cdrom
Package: gnome-power-manager 2.21.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-brightness-applet --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_BrightnessApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=29
ProcCwd: /
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=bg_BG.UTF-8
 PATH=/home/xpert/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager
StacktraceTop:
 g_markup_escape_text ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
 g_object_set_valist ()
 g_object_set () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? ()
Title: gnome-brightness-applet crashed with SIGSEGV in g_markup_escape_text()
Uname: Linux ico-laptop 2.6.24-4-generic #1 SMP Mon Jan 14 18:19:11 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev scanner video

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:IA__g_markup_escape_text (text=0x8e0000 <Address 0x8e0000 out of bounds>, length=9306112)
gtk_widget_set_property (object=0x68c0b0, prop_id=<value optimized out>,
IA__g_object_set_valist (object=0x68c0b0, first_property_name=<value optimized out>,
IA__g_object_set (_object=0x68c0b0, first_property_name=0x7f147ce1dbd8 "tooltip-text")
watch_connection_cb (watch=<value optimized out>, status=<value optimized out>, applet=0x68c0b0)

[Hristo Hristov (xpertbg)]

This still happens on up-to-date Ubuntu

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your report, Does it happens if you run your session on English (en_US.UTF-8)?

[Hristo Hristov (xpertbg)]

This didn't happen the last couple of times I started Ubuntu. I rarely use it, but for now it seem to be working. I will report back if it crashes again.

[Hristo Hristov (xpertbg)]

It happened one more time, then three times I couldn't reproduce it. I will try some more tests later.

[Hristo Hristov (xpertbg)]

It did happen one more time with up-to-date and restarted system. The crash occured after 4 or 5 logouts and logins. But this time the applet was not restarted and no offer to make bug report was made, just plain question if I want to remove the applet or to keep it, like in Debian (I guess the bug report system is Ubuntu specific).

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Does it happens if you change the LANGUAGE? thanks for testing.

[Hristo Hristov (xpertbg)]

I didn't try changing the LANGUAGE to en_US.UTF-8 . I will try this tonight when I get home.

[Hristo Hristov (xpertbg)]

Hello again,
Sorry for the delay but I was busy. Looks like the crash doesn't occur with en_US.UTF-8 language, but I cannot be absolutely sure because the applet doesn't crash every time with bg_BG.UTF-8. But at least I couldn't crash it with en_US.UTF-8 and it crashed several times with bg_BG.UTF-8.

[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.

[Hristo Hristov (xpertbg)]

Hi,

I don't have ubuntu installation any more. If you want I can try one (just tell me which one you prefer to test).
I filled a bug in Debian with a little more information (and an update to the Bulgarian translation which works-around the bug):
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495945

BR,
Hristo

[Hristo Hristov (xpertbg)]

Hi,

I tried Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex" alpha 4 and the applet doesn't crash. I also checked the source and the problem seem to be fixed:
g_strdup_printf and g_strdup are used instead of snprintf.

BR,
Hristo

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, I am closing it because the bug has been fixed in the latest development version of Ubuntu - the Intrepid Ibex.

Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Feel free to submit any future bugs you may find.