gksu crashed with SIGSEGV in gdk_window_set_opacity()

[Victor Costan]

Binary package hint: gksu

Running Karmic x86_64 beta + updates as of Oct 21, 1pm EST. Closed lid, opened it 3 hours later, logged in. Was greeted by this crash.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Oct 21 16:12:18 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gksu
NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia
Package: gksu 2.0.2-2ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gksu --message <span\ weight="bold"\ size="larger">Please\ enter\ your\ password\ to\ access\ problem\ reports\ of\ system\ programs</span> /usr/share/apport/apport-gtk
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f536dcf8901 <gdk_window_set_opacity+33>: cmp %rax,(%rdx)
 PC (0x7f536dcf8901) ok
 source "%rax" ok
 destination "(%rdx)" (0x00000001) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gksu
StacktraceTop:
 gdk_window_set_opacity ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgksu2.so.0
 g_main_context_dispatch ()
 ?? () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_main_loop_run () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: gksu crashed with SIGSEGV in gdk_window_set_opacity()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip fax fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare tape video

[Victor Costan (costan)]

Oh... I guess I was greeted by some other problem first, and this came up as I was trying to report the other problem.

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:IA__gdk_window_set_opacity (window=0x1432fe0,
fadeout_callback (fadeout=0x14ae1d0)
g_main_context_dispatch ()
?? () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
g_main_loop_run () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for this report. I can not be sure, but this may be a duplicate of bug 182629. Comparing the stacktrace from apport team, they are not the same. I will leave this for the developers to sort through.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!