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gksu crashed with SIGSEGV in gdk_window_set_opacity()

Bug #452785 reported by David M. Lee on 2009-10-16

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #182629: gksu crashed with SIGSEGV in gdk_window_set_opacity(). Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gksu (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gksu

Not really sure what happened. Just saw the crash report.
[dlee@hsv-dlee ~]$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10
[dlee@hsv-dlee ~]$ apt-cache policy gksu
gksu:
  Installed: 2.0.2-2ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.0.2-2ubuntu1
  Version table:
*** 2.0.2-2ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 14 08:45:14 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gksu
Package: gksu 2.0.2-2ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gksu --message <span\ weight="bold"\ size="larger">Please\ enter\ your\ password\ to\ access\ problem\ reports\ of\ system\ programs</span> /usr/share/apport/apport-gtk
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13.44-generic
SegvAnalysis:
Segfault happened at: 0x1878cc <gdk_window_set_opacity+44>: mov (%esi),%edx
PC (0x001878cc) ok
source "(%esi)" (0x00000030) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
destination "%edx" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gksu
StacktraceTop:
gdk_window_set_opacity () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
?? () from /usr/lib/libgksu2.so.0
?? () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
?? () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: gksu crashed with SIGSEGV in gdk_window_set_opacity()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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David M. Lee (leedm777) wrote on 2009-10-16:

Dependencies.txt Edit (3.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Disassembly.txt Edit (1.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (27.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (750 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Registers.txt Edit (482 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Stacktrace.txt Edit (1.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (2.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2009-10-16: Stacktrace.txt (retraced)

Stacktrace.txt (retraced) Edit (3.1 KiB, text/plain)

StacktraceTop:IA__gdk_window_set_opacity (window=0x30, opacity=0.5)
fadeout_callback (fadeout=0x9a41c90) at libgksu.c:322
?? () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
?? () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2009-10-16: ThreadStacktrace.txt (retraced)

ThreadStacktrace.txt (retraced) Edit (4.6 KiB, text/plain)

Changed in gksu (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
tags:	removed: need-i386-retrace

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Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek) wrote on 2010-08-18:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 182629, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.