gnome-screenshot crashed with SIGSEGV in g_object_new_valist()

[David Bogner]

Binary package hint: gnome-utils

I made a screenshot with triggered by keyboard shortcut of a specific window (OpenOffice Writer with Document View set to 50%). Then the application crashed

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Apr 5 16:27:32 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-screenshot
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-utils 2.20.0.1-1ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdline: gnome-screenshot --window
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-utils
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_object_new_valist ()
 g_object_new () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_themed_icon_new_from_names ()
Title: gnome-screenshot crashed with SIGSEGV in g_object_new_valist()
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-12-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev video

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:boxed_proxy_collect_value (value=0x7fca04000dc8,
IA__g_object_new_valist (object_type=8184800,
IA__g_object_new (object_type=8184800,
IA__g_themed_icon_new_from_names (
IA__g_content_type_get_icon (

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for your report, is this still an issue with latest hardy packages? may you tell us a few steps in order to reproduce the crash?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.