gnome-appearance-properties crashed with SIGSEGV in g_slice_alloc()

[Γουργιώτης Γιώργος (aka Gourgi)]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

the application crashed when i tried to install a new theme

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Feb 4 19:29:24 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-appearance-properties
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.21.90-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdline: gnome-appearance-properties
ProcCwd: /home/gourgi
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=C
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
StacktraceTop:
 g_slice_alloc () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0
 pango_itemize_with_base_dir ()
Title: gnome-appearance-properties crashed with SIGSEGV in g_slice_alloc()
Uname: Linux gourgi 2.6.24-5-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 24 19:29:14 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin plugdev video

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:g_hash_table_insert_internal (hash_table=0x70a900,
pango_fc_font_map_load_fontset (fontmap=0x70e9a0,
itemize_state_process_run (state=0x7fffdf442d80)
pango_itemize_with_base_dir (
pango_layout_check_lines (layout=0x11df5c0)

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a valgrind log following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Valgrind and attach the file to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem. May you also tell us a few steps in order to trigger the crash? thanks.

[Γουργιώτης Γιώργος (aka Gourgi) (gourgi)]

i tried installing several gtk themes from gnome-look.org and the problem is allways the same :
i click appearance, click the install , browse to the theme.tar.gz,select to open and after that the properties windws disappears.
this happens using either compiz or metacity
i thought it had something to do with file-roller cause i experience some problems with it so i re-installed but problem still exists.
on the other hand gdm themes install fine

i attached the valgrind.log
if there is something else i can do , please inform.

[Γουργιώτης Γιώργος (aka Gourgi) (gourgi)]

here is the .log file

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Could you install gvfs-dbgsym libglib2.0-0-dbgsym libgtk2.0-0-dbgsym and get a new valgrind log?

[Γουργιώτης Γιώργος (aka Gourgi) (gourgi)]

hi again
i installed the packages mentioned and i run the following command , using the wiki about valgrind :
G_SLICE=always-malloc G_DEBUG=gc-friendly valgrind -v --tool=memcheck --leak-check=full --num-callers=40 --log-file=valgrind_new.log gnome-appearance-properties

here is the new log

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the new log shows a capplet issue, could you install gnome-control-center-dbgsym and get an another one?

[Γουργιώτης Γιώργος (aka Gourgi) (gourgi)]

attachment added

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=515414

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The bug has been fixed upstream now

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-control-center - 1:2.21.92-0ubuntu1

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gnome-control-center (1:2.21.92-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * New upstream versions:
    about-me:
    - Fix widget tab order (lp: #41748)
    - Don't distribute the .desktop.in file
    - Port to gio
    appearance:
    - always apply the current GConf settings to the initially selected
      wallpaper so that we don't modify the settings if GConf state and
      the definition in backgrounds.xml are not identical
    - don't try to set shading and options in GConf when we're dealing with a
      read-only source
    common:
    - Handle broken pipe if thumbnailer crashes
    - Fix a small leak in the file transfer dialog
    - Use new Metacity function to render rounded metacity borders correctly
      (lp: #131189)
    default-applications:
    - use '...' syntax instead of $(...) for better portability
    display:
    - Escape strange hostnames that we want to use as GConf keys
      (see bug #517259 for a similar issue in gnome-settings-daemon)
    general:
    - Increase required metacity version to 2.21.21
    - Revert removal of FONTILUS and THEMUS
      substitution that occurred in r8452.
    Fixes distcheck.
    - remove obsolete checks
    - add gio-2.0 to general capplet flags for now; this part needs
      cleaning up in the next cycle
    - Add check for LIBSOUNDS.
    appearance:
    - Add a comment for translators
    - Make sure we're done with the dialog before we destroy it (lp: #189003)
    - Remove useless (with GIO-based Nautilus) 'Go to fonts folder' button
    at-properties:
    - Move capplet to main menu
    default applications:
    - Support --new-tab/--new-window for Iceweasel
    - Improve name and description for the visual AT autostarter (lp: #146918)
    - Add support for Terminator console (lp: #184635)
    - Add support for Konsole (lp: #162021)
    keybindings:
    - Move Launch Calculator to Desktop group
      and sort all launch_app keybing together
    keyboard:
    - Don't mark padding strings as translatable
    libbackground:
    - Use LIBBACKGROUND_{CFLAGS,...} instead of CAPPLET_... so we can use
      libbackground in gnome-settings-daemon too
    - Don't pass a GError to the gconf_client*() calls
      since we don't use it anyway
    libwindow-settings:
    - Expose missing metacity double-click actions
    mouse:
    - Set up the proper scale widgets to GtkSizeGroup in both tabs
    - Fix HIG compliance for spacing, borders, padding, alignment
      and sentence label
    sound:
    - Use the libsounds.la now that libsounds uses libtool
    shell:
    - Add missing full stops in the long description
    - Specify libtool versioning info
    network:
    - Don't mark padding strings as translatable
    themus:
    - Don't leak the ATK relation set
    typing break:
    - Add a comment for translators
    general:
    - Remove some cruft from the configure script and give libbackground
      its own settings
    updated translation
  * debian/control.in:
    - updated libmetacity requirement
  * debian/patches/95_desktop-effects-integration.patch:
    - don't translate gtk-preferences label (lp: #15...