emerald crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_cast()

[Mark Beierl]

Binary package hint: emerald

While using alt-tab window switcher under compiz, this crash occurred.

Emerald Version: 0.7.2-0ubuntu2
Compiz Version: 1:0.7.4-0ubuntu3
Kernel 2.6.24-15-generic #1 SMP Fri Apr 4 03:10:59 UTC 2008

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Apr 8 22:31:45 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/emerald
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: emerald 0.7.2-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/emerald
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: emerald
StacktraceTop:
 g_type_check_instance_cast ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
Title: emerald crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_cast()
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-15-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev video
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f0bc13caf58 <g_type_check_instance_cast+56>: mov (%rax),%rdx
 PC (0x7f0bc13caf58) ok
 source "(%rax)" (0x3fffff00000008) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rdx" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:IA__g_type_check_instance_cast (type_instance=0x963870, iface_type=80)
update_switcher_window (win=0x912160, selected=<value optimized out>) at main.c:3256
event_filter_func (gdkxevent=<value optimized out>, event=<value optimized out>,
gdk_event_apply_filters (xevent=0x7fffcb93ed60, event=0x9a6c40, filters=<value optimized out>)
gdk_event_translate (display=0x644110, event=0x50, xevent=0x7fffcb93ed60, return_exposes=0)

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

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