gnome-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in g_main_context_dispatch()

[Chris Cowan]

I logged in, and I was told gnome-settings-daemon had crashed. Which was odd, because none of the other things that usually happen when gnome-settings-daemon crashes happened (windows losing decoration, media keys stop working, etc).

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-settings-daemon 3.2.2-0ubuntu2.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-19.33-generic 3.0.27
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-19-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun May 6 13:59:11 2012
Disassembly: => 0x7ff464be1ef0: Cannot access memory at address 0x7ff464be1ef0
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7ff464be1ef0: Cannot access memory at address 0x7ff464be1ef0
 PC (0x7ff464be1ef0) not located in a known VMA region (needed executable region)!
SegvReason: executing unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
 g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_main_loop_run () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: gnome-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in g_main_context_dispatch()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout kvm lpadmin plugdev sambashare
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-terminal:3755): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_get_events: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:3503): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_get_int32: assertion `g_variant_is_of_type (value, G_VARIANT_TYPE_INT32)' failed
 (check-new-release-gtk:4188): Gtk-WARNING **: Unknown property: GtkMessageDialog.has-separator

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Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #898994, 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.