update-notifier crashed with SIGSEGV in the guest session

[Mark Shuttleworth]

Binary package hint: update-notifier

Intrepid, pre-release.

dell-desktop% apt-cache policy update-notifier
update-notifier:
  Installed: 0.71.7
  Candidate: 0.71.7
  Version table:
 *** 0.71.7 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-notifier
Package: update-notifier 0.71.7
ProcAttrCurrent: /usr/share/gdm/guest-session/Xsession (enforce)
ProcCmdline: update-notifier
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: update-notifier
Stacktrace:
 #0 0x0804c0d9 in ?? ()
 #1 0x0804c32d in ?? ()
 #2 0xb733b685 in ?? ()
 #3 0x0804bf41 in ?? ()
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
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 ?? ()
ThreadStacktrace:

Title: update-notifier crashed with SIGSEGV
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686
UserGroups:

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Here is the backtrace:

(gdb) bt full
#0 0x0804c0d9 in monitor_init (un=0x0) at update-notifier.c:309
 i = 163164592
 monitor_handle = (GnomeVFSMonitorHandle *) 0xbf9f0358
 monitor_dirs = {0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0}
 monitor_files = {0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0}
#1 0x0804c32d in main (argc=1, argv=0xbf9f0434) at update-notifier.c:458
 client = (GnomeClient *) 0x804c0cd
 context = <value optimized out>
 dirname = <value optimized out>
 hal_ctx = <value optimized out>

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:monitor_init (un=0x0) at update-notifier.c:309
main (argc=1, argv=0xbf9f0434) at update-notifier.c:458