transmission and other gtk apps segfault when opening dialogs sporadically

[Gary Trakhman]

Binary package hint: transmission

I've been having this problem for a few weeks with gtk apps on karmic. Seems like pidgin isn't doing it anymore, but recently, nm-applet and transmission have been giving me trouble. If I open the preferences pane, it'll just segfault with a probability of about 0.5.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jul 2 09:25:37 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/transmission
Package: transmission-gtk 1.72-1ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-1.13-generic
SourcePackage: transmission
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-1-generic x86_64

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

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 instructions to have apport report a new bug about your crash that can be dealt with by the automatic retracer.

If you are running the Ubuntu Stable Release you might need to enable apport in /etc/default/apport and restart.

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.
If you are using Kubuntu or Xubuntu you can file the crash using /usr/share/apport/apport-qt --crash-file=/var/crash/_my_crash_report.crash in a terminal - where _my_crash_report.crash is the crash you would like to report.

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.