gksu crashed with SIGSEGV when closing synaptics in karmic

[Matt McDonald]

Binary package hint: gksu

Naultalis root crashes when synaptics is closed in Karmic.

Synaptics still seems to work fine though, so this is more of an annoyance than a real show stopper.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Wed Jul 22 22:43:37 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gksu
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: gksu 2.0.2-2ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: gksu --description /usr/share/applications/synaptic.desktop /usr/sbin/synaptic
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-3.19-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xd5862c: mov 0x8(%esi),%edx
 PC (0x00d5862c) ok
 source "0x8(%esi)" (0xc5cfabaf) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%edx" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gksu
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? ()
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Title: gksu crashed with SIGSEGV
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-3-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout fuse lpadmin plugdev sambashare vboxusers video

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:malloc_consolidate (av=0xe47160) at malloc.c:4897
_int_malloc (av=0xe47160, bytes=104) at malloc.c:4572
*__GI___libc_malloc (bytes=104) at malloc.c:3551
_XEnq (dpy=0x866e660, event=0x8964ef0)
process_responses (dpy=0x866e660,

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

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.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue was a libgksu and fixed with the new version uploaded in karmic

[Paul Larson (pwlars)]

removed ubuntu-unr tag since it doesn't seem specific to unr