gdm crashed with SIGSEGV in get_default_language_name()

Bug #1496196 reported by installshield_freak
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Bug Description

it crashes alongside aptd

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: gdm 3.16.2-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-10.11-generic 4.2.0
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-7-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.18.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Sep 9 12:44:01 2015
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/gdm
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-06-16 (91 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Alpha amd64 (20150614)
ProcCmdline: /usr/sbin/gdm
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x41ab8f: mov 0x18(%rbp),%rax
 PC (0x0041ab8f) ok
 source "0x18(%rbp)" (0x00000018) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rax" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gdm
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ffi_call_unix64 () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6
 ffi_call () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6
 g_cclosure_marshal_generic () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: gdm crashed with SIGSEGV in ffi_call_unix64()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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installshield_freak (installshield-freak) wrote :
information type: Private → Public
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StacktraceTop:
 get_default_language_name (self=<optimized out>) at gdm-session.c:488
 worker_on_saved_language_name_read (worker=0xd550b0, language_name=0xe534e0 "en_US", conversation=0xe194e0) at gdm-session.c:878
 ffi_call_unix64 () at ../src/x86/unix64.S:76
 ffi_call (cif=<optimized out>, fn=<optimized out>, rvalue=0x7fffc2a0d490, avalue=0x7fffc2a0d430) at ../src/x86/ffi64.c:525
 ?? ()

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Changed in gdm (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
summary: - gdm crashed with SIGSEGV in ffi_call_unix64()
+ gdm crashed with SIGSEGV in get_default_language_name()
tags: removed: need-amd64-retrace
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