gweather-applet-2 crashed with SIGSEGV in toupper_w() on login

[Will Law]

Binary package hint: gnome-applets

Ubuntu 7.10

gnome-applets:
  Installed: 2.20.0-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.20.0-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.20.0-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Expected:

When I log in, gweather-applet-2 loads in the panel

Actual:

When I log in, gweather-applet-2 crashes consistently. When I click reload, it loads as expected.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Apr 13 20:09:37 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gnome-applets/gweather-applet-2
NonfreeKernelModules: cdrom
Package: gnome-applets 2.20.0-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/gnome-applets/gweather-applet-2 --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_GWeatherApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=24
ProcCwd: /
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/will/bin:/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: gnome-applets
StacktraceTop:
 toupper_w () from /lib/libnss_wins.so.2
 toupper_ascii () from /lib/libnss_wins.so.2
 StrCaseCmp () from /lib/libnss_wins.so.2
 strequal () from /lib/libnss_wins.so.2
 set_socket_options () from /lib/libnss_wins.so.2
Title: gweather-applet-2 crashed with SIGSEGV in toupper_w()
Uname: Linux koe 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 02:46:46 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev scanner video

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the crash is similar to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461567

[Will Law (williumbillium)]

Hi Pedro. It is still an issue for me. I had removed the applet in question (because I didn't want to deal with reloading it every time) but reinstalled it after reading your comment. Occasionally I can log in without problems, but usually it crashes as reported. Thanks.