bamfdaemon crashed with SIGABRT in dbus_g_connection_register_g_object()

[John Winterton]

Description: Ubuntu Natty (development branch)
Release: 11.04
bamfdaemon:
  Installed: 0.2.84-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.2.84-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.2.84-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
The new desktop, which apparently has an internal name of bamf and its associated daemon (demon?) are very good at crashing. The system lives, but it doesn't.

In this case I was running Musescore, setting up to save a copy of the example (the promenade from Moussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition). When I clicked on save a copy, a menu to choose a directory was displayed, and when I attempted to change the default by clicking on the drop box handle, the bamfdaemon died of what I suspect is "too many windows open, I can't handle this."

I have spent all day fighting with this useless piece of undocumented garbage that you have foisted off on the users without warning or choice. I am sick to death of it, and I will not use 11.04 unless this is either improved or made totally optional (maybe at boot time).

I also spent considerable time fighting with that poor excuse for a productivity tool, evolution. I am beginning to believe that this whole release is a giant box of bugs, and I have no intention of reading a lot of documentation written by programmers who wouldn't know an end user requirement if it flew up and bit them. I want my computer to act like it always did and not try to tell me how to work.

This is not progress. You have tried to make it easier to get around the machine, but it is much harder.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: bamfdaemon 0.2.84-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.41-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Thu Apr 7 19:48:15 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/bamf/bamfdaemon
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/bamf/bamfdaemon
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: bamf
StacktraceTop:
 dbus_g_connection_register_g_object () from /usr/lib/libdbus-glib-1.so.2
 bamf_view_export_on_bus ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: bamfdaemon crashed with SIGABRT in dbus_g_connection_register_g_object()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout fuse lpadmin plugdev sambashare video

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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 #754225, 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.