nitrogen crashed with SIGSEGV at startup when restoring wallpaper

[Mustard]

Binary package hint: nitrogen

Using openbox I have nitrogen loading the wallpaper using its --restore option. It currently segfaults when loading the wallpaper. Also I can run it from terminal at a later stage, where I am presented with a GUI and can add and remove directories, but when the 'Apply' button is pressed, the app segfaults.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Fri Feb 12 19:02:45 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nitrogen
InstallationMedia: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/installer/media-info'
Package: nitrogen 1.5-1
ProcCmdline: nitrogen --restore
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-12.17-server
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x417cde: mov (%rdx),%ebp
 PC (0x00417cde) ok
 source "(%rdx)" (0x00000008) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%ebp" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: nitrogen
StacktraceTop:
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Title: nitrogen crashed with SIGSEGV
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-12-server x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 SetBG::get_rootwindowtype (rootwin=DWARF-2 expression error: DW_OP_reg operations must be used either alone or in conjuction with DW_OP_piece.
 SetBG::set_bg (disp=@0x7fff66ce85a0,
 Util::restore_saved_bgs () at Util.cc:169
 restore_bgs () at main.cc:35
 main (argc=2, argv=0x7fff66ce8b48) at main.cc:103

[Iain Buclaw (iainb)]

This bug has been fixed upstream as a bugfix-only update.

CHANGELOG
Thu Feb 4 18:43:52 EST 2010 Dave Foster <email address hidden>
    * Releasing 1.5.1.
    * Fixes bug with detecting root window type, README updates.

Am attaching the diff.gz of the update, and the link to the upstream source is below:
http://projects.l3ib.org/nitrogen/files/nitrogen-1.5.1.tar.gz

[Iain Buclaw (iainb)]

Have exchanged words with Nico, and he is (as of writing) updating the package in Debian/
http://packages.debian.org/source/unstable/nitrogen

An eventual sync with upstream then before the release of Lucid would be preferable.

Regards
Iain

[Ilya Barygin (randomaction)]

1.5.1-1 is already in Debian, so I suggest that you request a sync (either convert this bug or make a new one): https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SyncRequestProcess

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

sync request filed: bug #549782

[Iain Buclaw (iainb)]

bug #549782 is fixed, so should be this bug I guess...