gnome-session crashed with SIGSEGV in g_timeout_dispatch()

[Paul Sladen]

Binary package hint: gnome-session

Outstanding apport-detected crash.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Sep 15 23:13:25 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-session
Package: gnome-session-bin 2.27.92-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: gnome-session
ProcCwd: /home/oem
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.32-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x8059fa3 <gtk_tree_model_iter_n_children@plt+35047>: mov 0x8(%eax),%eax
 PC (0x08059fa3) ok
 source "0x8(%eax)" (0x00000008) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%eax" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-session
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 g_timeout_dispatch (source=0x8930388, callback=0,
 g_main_dispatch (context=0x88d71a0)
Title: gnome-session crashed with SIGSEGV in g_timeout_dispatch()
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev scanner video

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a debug backtrace after installing gnome-session-dbgsym following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and upload the backtrace (as an attachment) to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

You could also send the full crash using apport so it can be retraced in a debug version

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-session - 2.28.0-0ubuntu1

---------------
gnome-session (2.28.0-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    - Trivial code fixes
    - Lock the screen before hibernate/suspend (lp: #428115)
  * debian/patches/98_autotools.patch:
    - new version update

  [ Chris Coulson ]
  * debian/patches/97_fix_query_end_session_crash.patch:
    - Don't crash on XSMP clients which don't respond to SaveYourself
      within the timeout, and which don't have a SmProgram property set
      (lp: #408481, #432692, #433302)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:39:18 +0200