users-admin crashed with signal 5 in do_pre_parse_initialization()

[Eliah Kagan]

On an Oneiric i386 system in a 3D Unity session with gnome-system-tools 2.32.0-0ubuntu7, I ran "users-admin" in a Terminal and got this crash, with the following output indicating that users-admin must be rebuilt for GTK+ 3.0:

Gtk-ERROR **: GTK+ 2.x symbols detected. Using GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)

This is similar to bug 814060, except this affects users-admin instead of shares-admin. Perhaps this bug and bug 814060 should be considered the same bug, since users-admin and shares-admin are provided by the same source and binary packages. Or perhaps they should remain separate. I will leave that question to the triagers and developers.

While gnome-system-tools has been moved to the universe component in Oneiric, bugs that completely prevent its use are still highly problematic, in part because at least one major Ubuntu "flavor" -- Lubuntu -- has gnome-system-tools but not gnome-control-center (and does not provide anything near a full GNOME desktop, so installing gnome-control-center is not a good option for Lubuntu users). Lubuntu does not have official status at present, but is expected to get it as of Oneiric (see http://lubuntu.net/blog/lubuntu-track-official-status-ubuntu-flavour). I believe Xubuntu--which has been official for quite some time--also uses gnome-system-tools as the standard way to administer users and groups.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-system-tools 2.32.0-0ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-7.9-generic 3.0.0
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-7-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Aug 2 09:13:27 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/users-admin
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcCmdline: users-admin
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: gnome-system-tools
StacktraceTop:
 do_pre_parse_initialization (context=0x9c65938, group=0x9c68390, data=0x9c65968, error=0xbfa3c49c) at /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.24.5/gtk/gtkmain.c:676
 pre_parse_hook (context=0x9c65938, group=0x9c68390, data=0x9c65968, error=0xbfa3c49c) at /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.24.5/gtk/gtkmain.c:787
 g_option_context_parse (context=0x9c65938, argc=0xbfa3c524, argv=0xbfa3c528, error=0xbfa3c49c) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.14/./glib/goption.c:1773
 IA__gtk_parse_args (argc=0xbfa3c524, argv=0xbfa3c528) at /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.24.5/gtk/gtkmain.c:958
 IA__gtk_init_check (argc=0xbfa3c524, argv=0xbfa3c528) at /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.24.5/gtk/gtkmain.c:994
Title: users-admin crashed with signal 5 in do_pre_parse_initialization()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-06-18 (44 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #804651, so 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.

[Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure)]

I am not sure Apport retracing service is correct in marking this as a duplicate of bug 789333, since bug 789333 is currently being considered to be a GNOME3 PPA bug and this bug is not a GNOME3 PPA bug. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-tools/+bug/789333/comments/8 (and possible future comments).