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[apport] gnome-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in strcmp()

Bug #131382 reported by John Carlyle-Clarke on 2007-08-09

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #95049: [apport] gnome-theme-manager crashed with SIGSEGV in strcmp(). Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	fontconfig (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

I thought initially this was the dbus related problem in Bug#61381 and Bug #110147 but now I think it's something else.

I get an error on login to gnome about gnome-settings-daemon being unable to start.

When I run it from the console, I get:

johncc@liberator:~$ gnome-settings-daemon
[1186688212,000,xklavier.c:xkl_engine_start_listen/] The backend does not require manual layout management - but it is provided by the application
(gnome-settings-daemon:16351): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
xrdb: "*Label.background" on line 243 overrides entry on line 170
xrdb: "*Text.background" on line 249 overrides entry on line 211
xrdb: "*Label.foreground" on line 255 overrides entry on line 171
xrdb: "*Text.foreground" on line 261 overrides entry on line 212
xrdb: "*Label.background" on line 243 overrides entry on line 170
xrdb: "*Text.background" on line 249 overrides entry on line 211
xrdb: "*Label.foreground" on line 255 overrides entry on line 171
xrdb: "*Text.foreground" on line 261 overrides entry on line 212
xrdb: "*Label.background" on line 243 overrides entry on line 170
xrdb: "*Text.background" on line 249 overrides entry on line 211
xrdb: "*Label.foreground" on line 255 overrides entry on line 171
xrdb: "*Text.foreground" on line 261 overrides entry on line 212
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

dbus appears to be running OK.

A backtrace shows:

#0 0xb757968a in strcmp () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#1 0xb74ba88b in ?? () from /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
#2 0xb5acda19 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libXft.so.2
#3 0xb5a95a19 in ?? ()
#4 0xb5abd000 in ?? ()
#5 0x00000001 in ?? ()
#6 0xb5acea88 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libXft.so.2
#7 0x081c31f8 in ?? ()
#8 0x00000225 in ?? ()
#9 0xb5acebac in ?? () from /usr/lib/libXft.so.2
#10 0xb5acea88 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libXft.so.2
#11 0x00000000 in ?? ()

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Thu Aug 9 20:36:54 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/control-center/gnome-settings-daemon
Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.18.1-0ubuntu2.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: gnome-settings-daemon
ProcCwd: /home/johncc
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/home/johncc/bin:/opt/ghostscript/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: control-center
StacktraceTop:
strcmp () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
?? () from /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
?? () from /usr/lib/libXft.so.2
?? ()
?? ()
Uname: Linux liberator 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev scanner users video

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John Carlyle-Clarke (jpcc) wrote on 2007-08-09:

Dependencies.txt Edit (7.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Disassembly.txt Edit (630 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (24.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (691 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Registers.txt Edit (530 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2007-08-10: Symbolic stack trace

Stacktrace.txt (retraced) Edit (20.4 KiB, text/plain)

StacktraceTop:strcmp () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
FcObjectHashInsert (object=0xb5a61a88, copy=1) at fcname.c:208
IA__FcNameRegisterObjectTypes (types=0xb5a61a88, ntypes=3) at fcname.c:271
_XftNameInit () at ../../src/xftname.c:43
XftInit (config=0x0) at ../../src/xftinit.c:37

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2007-08-10: Symbolic threaded stack trace

ThreadStacktrace.txt (retraced) Edit (21.0 KiB, text/plain)

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2007-08-10:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 95049 and is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any information missing that you can add or to see if there is a work around. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.