[power]: gnome-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in engine_update_composite_device()

[Martin Senft]

Every time i boot up 12.04-beta-2 Desktop LiveCD and start preparing for install, the gnome-setting-daemon crashes on me.

This bug is similar to bugs #965487, #960246 and #968252. The first one looks similar to this bug, but has a different SIGSEGV location. The last two match this bug on SIGSEGV location, but were closed as invalid prior to my report and reopening was discouraged in the discussion.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnome-settings-daemon 3.3.92-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.33-generic 3.2.12
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.312
Date: Thu Apr 5 08:10:36 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64+mac (20120328)
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon
Title: [power]: gnome-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__OBJECTv()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[seeWallace (justheresfine2-paddyl)]

Please check if solved by update to g-s-d 3.4.0: when at choice of "Try Ubuntu"/"Install Ubuntu", (connect net and) switch to tty1 (ctrl-alt-F1) and 'sudo apt-get install aptitude' then use 'sudo aptitude'. (Or it's possible with ftp and dpkg if, like me, you also have errors with apt-get.) (Can also get http://ddebs.ubuntu.com/pool/main/g/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon-dbgsym_3.4.0-0ubuntu3_amd64.ddeb via curl). That hasn't crashed for me yet, so (touch wood!) looks like 3.4.0 will work for Precise.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.