packagekitd crashed with SIGSEGV in pk_dbus_init()

[atanu nath]

whenever I go for new installation it happens... started just after the upgration from 10.04 to 12.04 ubuntu.
and the most weird thing is that during installation when it asks for authentication, sometimes my password is not authenticated !!! The worst thing is that I am unable to install any new software...unable to update unable to upgrade !!!

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: packagekit 0.7.1-2 [modified: var/lib/PackageKit/transactions.db]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-8.15-generic-pae 3.2.0
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-8-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jan 13 06:28:05 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/packagekit/packagekitd
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/packagekit/packagekitd
ProcEnviron:

SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x8055864: mov 0x8(%eax),%eax
 PC (0x08055864) ok
 source "0x8(%eax)" (0x00000008) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%eax" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: packagekit
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 g_type_create_instance () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_object_newv () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_object_new () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: packagekitd crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_create_instance()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

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StacktraceTop:
 pk_dbus_init (dbus=0x8609a40) at pk-dbus.c:313
 g_type_create_instance (type=140615496) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.8/./gobject/gtype.c:1892
 g_object_constructor (type=140615496, n_construct_properties=0, construct_params=0x0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.8/./gobject/gobject.c:1839
 g_object_newv (object_type=140615496, n_parameters=0, parameters=0x0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.8/./gobject/gobject.c:1622
 g_object_new (object_type=140615496, first_property_name=0x0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.8/./gobject/gobject.c:1532

[Matthias Klumpp (ximion)]

This looks like a bug in GLib/GIO: g_dbus_proxy_new_sync () returns NULL without setting a GError. According to the documentation, if this function returns NULL it has to set a GError...
Is this bug still valid with newer versions of GIO?

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