systemsettings crashed with SIGSEGV in QString::operator<()

[Marián Kadaňka]

Binary package hint: kdebase-workspace

Almost fresh install of Kubuntu 9.10 beta in VMware virtual machine.
systemsettings crashed after trying to launch Policykit Autorization, which gives empty error dialog and empty configuration window.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Fri Oct 2 10:40:43 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/systemsettings
Package: systemsettings 4:4.3.1-0ubuntu14
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/systemsettings -caption System\ Settings -icon preferences-system
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x4315a5b <_ZNK7QStringltERKS_+27>: mov 0xc(%eax),%ecx
 PC (0x04315a5b) ok
 source "0xc(%eax)" (0x0000001a) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%ecx" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: kdebase-workspace
StacktraceTop:
 QString::operator<(QString const&) const ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
 QFactoryLoader::~QFactoryLoader() ()
Title: systemsettings crashed with SIGSEGV in QString::operator<()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Rich Johnson (nixternal)]

We are having PolicyKit issues right now and this is already known. There are multiple duplicates of this somewhere :) Thanks!