gnome-settings-daemon crashed with signal 5 in _XError()

[Xavier Fung]

This comes up when I try to change a desktop wallpaper. I am using Gnome Shell.

Steps:
1) Click on the user name menu to the top right corner, and choose System Settings
2) Choose Background, and click on the plus icon to the bottom left corner to add a new image from elsewhere
3) File picker dialog comes up and navigate to a folder with images
4) The dialog crashes together with System Settings, and no wallpaper is changed.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-settings-daemon 3.1.3-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0-3.4-generic 3.0.0-rc5
Uname: Linux 3.0-3-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Tue Jul 5 12:31:50 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_HK.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_HK:en
 SHELL=/bin/false
 PATH=(custom, no user)
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgdk-3.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgdk-3.so.0
 _XError () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
Title: gnome-settings-daemon crashed with signal 5 in _XError()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

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StacktraceTop:
 _gdk_x11_display_error_event (display=<value optimized out>, error=<value optimized out>) at /build/buildd/gtk+3.0-3.1.6/./gdk/x11/gdkdisplay-x11.c:2374
 gdk_x_error (xdisplay=<value optimized out>, error=0x7fff4e1a2630) at /build/buildd/gtk+3.0-3.1.6/./gdk/x11/gdkmain-x11.c:312
 gdk_x_error (xdisplay=<value optimized out>, error=0x7fff4e1a2630) at /build/buildd/gtk+3.0-3.1.6/./gdk/x11/gdkmain-x11.c:275
 _XError (dpy=0x8c76a0, rep=<value optimized out>) at ../../src/XlibInt.c:1583
 handle_error (dpy=0x8c76a0, err=0xa4aba0, in_XReply=<value optimized out>) at ../../src/xcb_io.c:166

[Carl Ansell (afccarl1994)]

I had this error in a Unity session, system was idle at the time. This is using an up to date version of Oneiric and a 32-bit install.

[Michael Kofler (michael-kofler)]

For me, it happens in Parallels Desktop about 30 sec. after login. With unity-2d.

Basically the same as in 11.04 in VirtualBox :-(

Some things never change ...

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

there's no duplicates with 3.2 could somebody please give it a try with latest packages and see if they can reproduce the issue? Thanks in advance.

[Carl Ansell (afccarl1994)]

I am using Oneiric and regularly get this error. It always occurs after the system has been up for a while (usually > 1hr) and mostly occurs when closing an application.

This is using full Unity.

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