gconftool-2 crashed with SIGSEGV in g_slice_alloc()

[IDWMaster]

Binary package hint: gconf

This problem occurs when resuming from hibernate using the command-line tool "hibernate".

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 15 13:21:26 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gconftool-2
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: gconf2 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcCmdline: gconftool --get /system/http_proxy/use_http_proxy
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.46-generic
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gconf
StacktraceTop:
 g_slice_alloc () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_array_sized_new () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_array_new () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_static_private_set () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_get_filename_charsets () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: gconftool-2 crashed with SIGSEGV in g_slice_alloc()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x21140e <g_slice_alloc+1230>: mov 0x690(%ebx),%edx
 PC (0x0021140e) ok
 source "0x690(%ebx)" (0x0026f684) ok
 destination "%edx" ok
 SP (0xbf8a3a60) ok
 Reason could not be automatically determined.
SegvReason: Reason could not be automatically determined.

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:g_slice_alloc () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
g_array_sized_new () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
g_array_new () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
g_static_private_set () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
g_get_filename_charsets () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a valgrind log following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Valgrind and attach the file to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[IDWMaster (webadm)]

Unfortunately; I was unable to reproduce the problem using valgrind. This is also an intermittent problem and gconftool-2 is not the only program that crashes after resuming (see the other most recent bug reports that I posted). More details below:

I downloaded and installed the large program (Valgrind) but was unable to reproduce the error, because gconftool-2 was started by the system and I was not sure how it had been started; or what parameters were used to start the task at the time. This is also an intermittent problem. When I tried running gconftool-2 without any parameters; I received the message "Run 'gconftool-2 --help' to see a full list of available command line options."

Is there a way to trace down the parameters that were passed to gconftool-2 at the time the issue occurs? Should I test my computer for defective RAM?

[IDWMaster (webadm)]

OK. I found the command line was conveniently placed in my bug report automatically; although the program still only runs for about a second so I am not sure how to capture the error that occurs.

[dino99 (9d9)]

This version is outdated and no more supported