gnome-appearance-properties crashed with SIGSEGV in QGtkStyle::drawControl()

[Kees Cook]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

Whatever gnome-appearance-properties forks off seems to run the stack until it runs off the end. The backtrace is 4710 calls deep.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Fri Mar 5 14:21:25 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-appearance-properties
Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.29.91-0ubuntu2
ProcCmdline: gnome-appearance-properties
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-15.22-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f7f6c1b70c8 <_ZNK9QGtkStyle11drawControlEN6QStyle14ControlElementEPK12QStyleOptionP8QPainterPK7QWidget+72>: callq 0x7f7f6be3c838 <_ZN7QString17fromLatin1_helperEPKci@plt>
 PC (0x7f7f6c1b70c8) ok
 source "0x7f7f6be3c838" (0x7f7f6be3c838) ok
 destination "(%rsp)" (0x7fffba585e90) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
StacktraceTop:
 QGtkStyle::drawControl(QStyle::ControlElement, QStyleOption const*, QPainter*, QWidget const*) const () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4
 QGtkStyle::drawControl(QStyle::ControlElement, QStyleOption const*, QPainter*, QWidget const*) const () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4
Title: gnome-appearance-properties crashed with SIGSEGV in QGtkStyle::drawControl()
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-15-generic x86_64
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[Kees Cook (kees)]

This comes from having gtk-qt-engine installed. I think this needs to be explicitly removed during upgrade.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package update-manager - 1:0.133.2

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update-manager (1:0.133.2) lucid; urgency=low

  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeViewNonInteractive.py:
    - fix regression in conffile prompt handling (LP: #538206)
    - add default to the "NonInteractive", "DebugBrokenScripts"
      config option
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py:
    - honor "DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive" in recovery mode as
      well (LP: #538206)
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgrade.cfg:
    - ensure that gtk-qt-engine is removed on upgrade (LP: #532968)
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:17:33 +0100