[Jaunty] System monitor crashed when trying to end a process (bluetoothd)

[Markus Pfeiffer]

Binary package hint: gnome-system-monitor

I tried to end the process "bluetoothd". System monitor (2.24.4-0ubuntu2) crashed with the attached error report.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-system-monitor
Package: gnome-system-monitor 2.24.4-0ubuntu2
ProcCmdline: gnome-system-monitor
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: gnome-system-monitor
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
 _XError () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
 _XReply () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
 XTranslateCoordinates () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
Title: gnome-system-monitor crashed with signal 5 in _XError()
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-5-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:gdk_x_error (display=0x8aa0108, error=0xbfc08398)
_XError (dpy=0x8aa0108, rep=0x921bdf8)
process_responses (dpy=0x8aa0108, wait_for_first_event=0,
_XReply (dpy=0x8aa0108, rep=0xbfc084c0, extra=0, discard=1)
XTranslateCoordinates (dpy=0x8aa0108, src_win=137,

[Alexandre Demers (oxalin)]

It seems System Monitor crashes whenever we try to kill or end a process that will not respond to the command. I reproduced it with gpsd on Ubuntu 9.10 alpha 5, updated on 09/09/09.

Try the following :
If you kill or end the application through System Monitor, it will crash System Monitor. However, the application will still be running.

If you try to kill the application using the command line "kill", the application will continue to run anyway.

So it seems related to a case where System Monitor doesn't handle correctly the error sent when an application can't be killed or ended. When this situation happens, System Monitor should not crash and, in the best case, should tell the user it wasn't able to kill or end the application correctly.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

is this still an issue with karmic?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.