gnome-boxes crashed with SIGABRT in g_assertion_message:g_assertion_message_expr:boxes_app_setup_default_source_co:g_task_return_now:g_task_return

[Nizar Kerkeni]

crashed when launching it

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-boxes 3.26.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-12.13-generic 4.13.3
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Oct 4 15:01:05 2017
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-boxes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-04-21 (165 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-boxes --gapplication-service
ProcEnviron:
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: gnome-boxes
StacktraceTop:
 g_assertion_message () at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_assertion_message_expr () at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ()
 () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
 () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
Title: gnome-boxes crashed with SIGABRT in g_assertion_message()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-09-15 (18 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 g_assertion_message (domain=domain@entry=0x55e8f2fda990 "Boxes", file=file@entry=0x55e8f2feb88a "app.c", line=line@entry=3283, func=func@entry=0x55e8f2fdb300 <__func__.72047> "boxes_app_setup_default_source_co", message=message@entry=0x55e8f49758e0 "assertion failed: (default_connection != null)") at ../../../../glib/gtestutils.c:2436
 g_assertion_message_expr (domain=domain@entry=0x55e8f2fda990 "Boxes", file=file@entry=0x55e8f2feb88a "app.c", line=line@entry=3283, func=func@entry=0x55e8f2fdb300 <__func__.72047> "boxes_app_setup_default_source_co", expr=expr@entry=0x55e8f2fdabd3 "default_connection != null") at ../../../../glib/gtestutils.c:2459
 boxes_app_setup_default_source_co (_data_=0x55e8f487f620) at app.c:3283
 g_task_return_now (task=0x55e8f491c680) at ../../../../gio/gtask.c:1145
 g_task_return (task=0x55e8f491c680, type=<optimized out>) at ../../../../gio/gtask.c:1203

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your bug report. Confirmed on artful.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

See also https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/51dd109d871e542ba07e9507aaf2b823f53e3287

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

It actually fails to connect to the hypervisor

$ LANG=C virsh -c qemu:///session list --all
error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
error: Cannot recv data: Connection reset by peer

Message could be clearer then an abort though.