gnome-system-monitor doesn't run in user

[tom]

Binary package hint: gnome-system-monitor

gnome-system-monitor doesn't run in user and crash before viewing the window:

tom@solo:~$ gnome-system-monitor

** (gnome-system-monitor:28954): WARNING **: SELinux was found but is not enabled.

(gnome-system-monitor:28954): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: IA__g_object_get_valist: property `name' of object class `GThemedIcon' is not readable
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::logic_error'
  what(): basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid
Aborted (core dumped)

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But gnome-system-monitor runs in root:

tom@solo:~$ sudo gnome-system-monitor
[sudo] password for tom:

** (gnome-system-monitor:29100): WARNING **: SELinux was found but is not enabled.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-system-monitor
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-system-monitor 2.24.0-0ubuntu1
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-system-monitor
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-4-generic i686

[tom (tpierrot)]

There was no problem in 8.04 and the problem appears with 8.10.

[Joseph (joenmtl)]

Running latest 8.10 beta with updates up to Oct 6 and gnome-system-terminal crashes every time I click on File Systems tab as myself, but works if running as root. The problem is exactly the same as this bug report. I've had this problem since alpha 4 release (but it might have been there even before that).

It still works fine with 8.04.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, your crash report is either missing or challenging to deal with as a ".crash" file. Please follow these instuctions to have apport report a new bug about your crash that can be dealt with by the automatic retracer.

If you are using Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop environment - launch nautilus and navigate to your /var/crash directory and double click on the crash report you wish to submit.

I'm closing this bug report since the process outlined above will automatically open a new bug report which can then dealt with more efficiently. Thanks in advance for your cooperation and understanding.

[Joseph (joenmtl)]

gnome-system-monitor is not generating a crash report under /var/crash when it crashes.
I am attaching the core dump instead.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Try to obtain a backtrace then, instructions are at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and attach the file to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[Joseph (joenmtl)]

Followed the debugging program instructions and the produced backtraced which is attached.
Let me know if you need anything else to help you find the problem.

[mogwai (scruffy-mogwai)]

Am having similar problem in Intrepid Ibex.
System manager crashes with the error:
 terminate called after throwing an instance of 'Glib::FileError'
when I click on the 'Processes' tab.
Will run as root (sudo gnome-system-monitor;)
My version of gnome-system-monitor is: 2.24.1-0ubuntu1

[Karunadheera (karunadheera)]

I also encounter the problem. Gnome-system-monitor crashes when clicked on the File Systems tab.
I'm attaching the backtrace file.

[Karunadheera (karunadheera)]

Why this bug is still incomplete?

[Joseph (joenmtl)]

I changed it back to new. Maybe I should have done that after I submitted the missing information.

[Karunadheera (karunadheera)]

I found an interesting fact about this bug.

I installed ubuntu 8.10 inside windows XP using wubi installer. This crash does not occur in it. The I did a full system update and restarted. I could not reproduce this bug under that installation however.

May be then this is related to ext3 filesystem permissions?

[Michael Kogan (michael-kogan)]

I've installed Intrepid on two machines both from the Live-CD. On one machine I experience the bug, on the other one not.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

the trace is missing a lot of symbols please install the dbgsym packages for the libgtkmm, libglibmm and gnome-system-monitor packages, thanks.

[Michael Kogan (michael-kogan)]

Does this one help? :)

[Michael Kogan (michael-kogan)]

I have a hint about this issue. gnome-system-monitor is crashing only when opening as user the "Filesystems" tab. Change the following key in gconf and you'll be able to use at least the other tabs: /apps/procman/current_tab. It is set to 3 per default (the "Filesystems" tab). Change it to some value between 0 and 2 to open one of the three other tabs per default and it won't crash any more unless you open the "Filesystems" tab manually.

[Michael Kogan (michael-kogan)]

edit: It seems really to be something related to ext3 because (as I now realize :D ) the crash appears on the machine with an ext3 /home and two other partitions in ext3 whereas on another machine with /home and / in reiserfs and another partition in ntfs it doesn't appear!

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

There's no indication of a gsm crash there, could you please follow the instructions i gave you before? thanks again.

[Michael Kogan (michael-kogan)]

Sorry, I've made a clean jaunty install and here the bug doesn't appear any more. Maybe someone else still using intrepid can report about this bug.

[abc_echo (siren442-gmail)]

Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic
new installation
Try to open 'System Monitor', and Below message prints on terminal:
====================================================================
** (gnome-system-monitor:7994): WARNING **: SELinux was found but is not enabled.

[abc_echo (siren442-gmail)]

Screenshot for System Monitor....

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

closing the report, thanks.