gnome-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in g_main_context_dispatch()

[Ivan Stetsenko]

Binary package hint: gnome-settings-daemon

gnome-settings-daemon crashes randomly (about every 24 hours). Dmesg gives:

gnome-settings-[4644]: segfault at 8 ip b709abeb sp bfc20fc0 error 4 in libxrandr.so[b7096000+7000]

gnome-settings-daemon 2.25.3-0ubuntu1
libxrandr2 2:1.2.99.4-1

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
Package: gnome-settings-daemon 2.25.3-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/libxrandr.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
 g_main_context_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: gnome-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in g_main_context_dispatch()
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-4-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip fax floppy fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev pulse pulse-access pulse-rt sambashare scanner tape vboxusers video

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:event_filter (xevent=0xbfc21278, event=0x8d36730,
gdk_event_translate (display=0x8d330b0, event=0x8d36730,
_gdk_events_queue (display=0x8d330b0)
gdk_event_dispatch (source=0x8d3a180, callback=0,
IA__g_main_context_dispatch (context=0x8d3a1c8)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, the crash is similar to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=566287

[Ivan Zorin (iaz)]

Confirm.
I use Ubuntu Jaunty (alpha3) with latest updates. In general, gnome-settings-daemon crashes when I press hotkey button at laptop for switch to second monitor; after log out or xserver restart gnome-settings-daemon works well, but after first crash and for now Menu->Log Out/Shut Down dialogs looks unthemed and very ugly :-)

[Andres Freund (andres-anarazel)]

Most probably the bug is fixed upstream as of r672, could you perhaps integrate that patch?

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=568713

Thanks,

Andres

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

This will get fixed next time g-s-d is updated in Jaunty

[spitfire (mieszkoslusarczyk)]

But when will that be?
Status of bug shows "Fix Commited" but it still happens for me.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

AFAIK, Ubuntu tasks aren't meant to be marked 'fix committed' unless the fix is in an Ubuntu repo somewhere pending upload, which was not the case here. But I've grabbed the change from upstream revision 672, and this will be uploaded soon anyway.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-settings-daemon - 2.25.3-0ubuntu2

---------------
gnome-settings-daemon (2.25.3-0ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Drop 19_extra_keybindings.patch, the keybinding has been wrong since
    Ubuntu 8.10 and this should be superseded by the upstream xrandr
    plugin anyway. LP: #267018.
  * 99_svn_crash_on_xrandr.patch: patch from upstream svn to fix a
    crasher bug in the xrandr plugin due to broken error handling.
    LP: #315974.

 -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:46:19 -0800

[Ste3ve H (ste3veh)]

On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 23:55 +0000, Steve Langasek wrote:
> AFAIK, Ubuntu tasks aren't meant to be marked 'fix committed' unless the
> fix is in an Ubuntu repo somewhere pending upload, which was not the
> case here. But I've grabbed the change from upstream revision 672, and
> this will be uploaded soon anyway.
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
> Status: Fix Committed => In Progress
>

Did you mean to send this to another email address? Mine is or should
only be associated with this bug because the crash reporter matched the
subject with an identical crash that I had, and I subscribed to it;
someone else wrote the 'fix committed' message.

At any rate, thanks for everything you're doing; Ubuntu is a really
great system.

Best regards,

Steve Hartwell

[Jack Leigh (leighman)]

Just happened for me on Lucid when closing Opera 10.10 but has happened in the past with other qt apps (although those occasions were on Karmic)

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

This bug was fixed over a year ago. Please open a new bug report for the issue you're seeing, with a backtrace of the crash.

[freacert (erik-grtz)]

@ leighman

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/602381

I do have exactly the same problem when closing opera 10.10

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Please don't reopen old, fixed bugs. Please report a new bug if you are experiencing issues, it's highly unlikely that the issue you're experiencing is the same as this bug

[rtstxtrdnr (rtstxtrdnr)]

keeps happening frequently!