gnome-boxes crashed with SIGSEGV in boxes_vm_creator_guest_installed_os()
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-boxes (Ubuntu) |
New
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
gnome-boxes crashed after opening
$ gnome-boxes
(gnome-
(gnome-
(gnome-
Naruszenie ochrony pamięci (core dumped)
ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gnome-boxes 3.8.4-1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.12.0-7-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.7-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Thu Dec 12 20:39:09 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-15 (57 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131015)
ProcCmdline: gnome-boxes
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
XDG_RUNTIME_
SegvAnalysis:
Segfault happened at: 0x474750: cmpq $0xfffff,0x10(%rax)
PC (0x00474750) ok
source "$0xfffff" ok
destination "0x10(%rax)" (0x00000010) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-boxes
StacktraceTop:
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g_simple_
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g_simple_
Title: gnome-boxes crashed with SIGSEGV in g_simple_
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2013-11-05 (37 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
information type: | Private → Public |
It has crashed because I had previously run gnome-boxes as root (sudo gnome-boxes), this changed owner of the folder ~/.local/ share/gnome- boxes/images to root instead of current user.
Simply chowning this folder to current user fixed the issue.