gksu crashed with SIGSEGV in g_closure_invoke()

[Adam Stovicek]

Binary package hint: gksu

adam@extensa4420:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10
adam@extensa4420:~$ apt-cache policy gksu
gksu:
  Installed: 2.0.0-5ubuntu3
  Candidate: 2.0.0-5ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 2.0.0-5ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
adam@extensa4420:~$

With Visual Effects set to Normal or Extra, gksu will fail when trying to display the prompt for your password to perform administrative tasks. It will display briefly as a button in the Window List applet, but nothing more. The button will disappear and the crash report will appear.

If I disable Visual Effects and run an application like Synaptic, I can enter my password as normal, turn Visual Effects back on, and run or re-run admin apps as long as the password is remembered. Once forgotten, we're back to gksu crashing until I set the Visual Effects back to None.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gksu
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: gksu 2.0.0-5ubuntu3
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: gksu /usr/sbin/synaptic
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gksu
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgksu2.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgksu2.so.0
 g_closure_invoke ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_signal_emit_valist ()
Title: gksu crashed with SIGSEGV in g_closure_invoke()
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-6-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare