Gnome Control Center Crashes when attempting to open "Details" (Ubuntu 13.10)

Bug #1179659 reported by Jonas De Moor
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-control-center
Fix Released
Critical
gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
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Raring
Fix Released
High
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Bug Description

[Impact]
* Gnome control center will crash when Clicking on the Details tab.
* only affects the virtualbox glX driver

[Testcase]
- Load VirtualBox VM with 3D enabled.
- Open gnome-control-center and click 'details'
- This will crash gnome-control-center, 100% reproducible

[Regression Potential]
Very low, this patch adds a glXQueryVersion call, which forces the virtualbox glX driver to correctly initialise before calling glXChooseFBConfig. This is entirely redundant on any other glX drivers and unlikely to cause any regressions.

=== Original Bug Report ===
On Ubuntu 13.10, when I search for "Details " in the dash, I see the mouse cursor (meaning it's loading something). But then gnome-control-panel crashes and I get "Ubuntu 13.10 has encountered an internal error".

This also happens when I go to System Settings from the launcher and then to "Details".

NOTE: I'm running 13.10 in a virtual machine on Ubuntu 12.04.

Bug Details
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1) Ubuntu version: Ubuntu 13.10 x64
2) Package version: gnome-control-center 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu25
3) Expectation: I expected that the Details section of the Control Panel would open.
4) Reality: Nothing happened; not even a window opened. I only get an error (mentioned above).

Virtual Machine Details
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- Dedicated four CPU Cores (CPU: AMD FX-8150 8 core CPU @ 3.6 GHz) to OS.
- Dedicated 5 GB RAM to OS.
- Dedicated 128 MB Video Memory (Maximum) to OS.
- 40 GB Virtual Hard Drive

Native System Details
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- CPU: AMD FX-8150 8 Core CPU @ 3.6 Ghz
- GPU: Nividia GTX 550Ti 1024 MB
- PSU: Antec High Current Gamer Bronze 620 Watts
- Motherboard: ASUS Sabertooth 990 FX
- OS: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS

summary: - Gnome Control Center Crashes when attempring to open "Details"
+ Gnome Control Center Crashes when attempring to open "Details" (Ubuntu
+ 13.10)
summary: - Gnome Control Center Crashes when attempring to open "Details" (Ubuntu
+ Gnome Control Center Crashes when attempting to open "Details" (Ubuntu
13.10)
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Tim Lunn (darkxst) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a backtrace following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and upload the backtrace (as an attachment) to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
Changed in gnome-control-center:
importance: Unknown → Critical
status: Unknown → Incomplete
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Tim Lunn (darkxst) wrote :
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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Jonas De Moor (jonas-12-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Hello,

Unfortunately, I can't obtain a backtrace anymore because I had to format my PC , so all my VM's are gone :(

Martin Pitt (pitti)
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-control-center - 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu26

---------------
gnome-control-center (1:3.6.3-0ubuntu26) saucy; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/git_no_glxinfo.patch:
    updated to fix details panel crash on vbox glx driver (LP: #1179659)
 -- Tim Lunn <email address hidden> Mon, 27 May 2013 09:53:26 +0200

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Tim Lunn (darkxst)
description: updated
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu Raring):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

I've uploaded this to raring.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello Jonas, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnome-control-center into raring-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/1:3.6.3-0ubuntu24.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu Raring):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed
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Tim Lunn (darkxst) wrote :

tested update in proposed. details pane no longer crashes and correctly displays glx renderer string.

tags: added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : Update Released

The verification of this Stable Release Update has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-control-center - 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu24.1

---------------
gnome-control-center (1:3.6.3-0ubuntu24.1) raring; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/git_no_glxinfo.patch:
    updated to fix details panel crash on vbox glx driver (LP: #1179659)
 -- Tim Lunn <email address hidden> Thu, 30 May 2013 15:20:27 -0700

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu Raring):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Sebastian Berthold (sleif) wrote :

Same error with:
apt-cache policy gnome-control-center
gnome-control-center:
  Installed: 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu24.1
  Candidate: 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu24.1
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu24.1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:3.6.3-0ubuntu24 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main amd64 Packages

Error:
(gnome-control-center:16410): info-cc-panel-WARNING **: PackageKit version 7.4.0 not supported
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Revision history for this message
Tim Lunn (darkxst) wrote :

Sebastian,
   The packagekit warning is unrelated to any crash. Please file a new bug with 'ubuntu-bug gnome-control-center', so can we get a backtrace and investigate further.

Changed in gnome-control-center:
status: Incomplete → New
Changed in gnome-control-center:
status: New → Fix Released
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