update-manager crashed with SIGSEGV in g_variant_unref()

[Tamer Saadeh]

Not sure what hppened but I tried to open the update manager, then this.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: update-manager 1:0.152.18
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Sep 21 01:22:12 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-manager
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/update-manager
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fcd02498f39 <g_variant_unref+9>: lock xadd %eax,0x24(%rdi)
 PC (0x7fcd02498f39) ok
 source "%eax" ok
 destination "0x24(%rdi)" (0x00000024) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: update-manager
StacktraceTop:
 g_variant_unref () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_settings_get_boolean () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
 ffi_call_unix64 () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6
 ffi_call () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgirepository-1.0.so.1
Title: update-manager crashed with SIGSEGV in g_variant_unref()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-16 (4 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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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 #836558, 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.