gnome-power-manager crashed with SIGSEGV in __libc_start_main()

[Steve Beattie]

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

Was poking around with update-manager when this crash appeared.

ProblemType: Crash
ACAdapter: Present
Architecture: i386
Battery: Not Present
CPUScaling: Not Present
CurrentDmesg:
 [ 1829.353549] eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
 [ 1839.968053] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
 [ 1846.019999] gvfs-gdu-volume[3840]: segfault at c ip 00cb0fda sp bffdb4c0 error 4 in libgdu.so.0.0.0[ca8000+22000]
 [ 3623.658569] gnome-power-man[5120]: segfault at 8 ip 08066803 sp bffbf010 error 4 in gnome-power-manager[8048000+3f000]
Date: Wed May 13 13:50:48 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-power-manager
LaptopPanel: Not Present
Lsusb: Error: command ['lsusb'] failed with exit code 1:
MachineType: innotek GmbH VirtualBox
Package: gnome-power-manager 2.26.1-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdLine: root=/dev/mapper/karma--ia32-root ro vga=0x314
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-power-manager
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-5.6-generic
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager
Stacktrace:

#0 0x08066803 in gpm_session_register_client (session=0x8ddc4f0,
    app_id=0x80768e8 "gnome-power-manager", client_startup_id=0x0)
    at gpm-session.c:266
 ret = 0
 client_id = (gchar *) 0x0
 error = (GError *) 0x0
 connection = <value optimized out>
 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "gpm_session_register_client"
 __FUNCTION__ = "gpm_session_register_client"

Title: gnome-power-manager crashed with SIGSEGV in __libc_start_main()
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-5-generic i686
UserGroups:
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x8066803 <g_strcmp0@plt+100191>: mov 0x8(%eax),%eax
 PC (0x08066803) ok
 source "0x8(%eax)" (0x00000008) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%eax" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:gpm_session_register_client (session=0x8ddc4f0,
main (argc=1, argv=0xbffbf224) at gpm-main.c:245

[Scott Howard (showard314)]

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1. Is this reproducible?
2. If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug? Be as detailed as possible.
This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Jeremy Sequoia (jeremyhu)]

I hit this a few months back, but I haven't seen the problem since...

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.