[printers]: gnome-control-center crashed with SIGSEGV in __memset_x86_64()

[John Markh]

Was trying to add a printer to a new installation of Ubuntu GNOME 13.04.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu13
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-12.21-generic 3.8.2
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Fri Mar 15 00:00:20 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-03-14 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130313)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: gnome-control-center printers
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f5ecf1d4826: mov %rdx,-0x10(%rdi)
 PC (0x7f5ecf1d4826) ok
 source "%rdx" ok
 destination "-0x10(%rdi)" (0x7f5ed115cb92) in non-writable VMA region: 0x7f5ed0e27000-0x7f5ed12d2000 r-xp /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0.600.4
SegvReason: writing VMA /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0.600.4
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 g_slice_alloc0 () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_type_create_instance () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: [printers]: gnome-control-center crashed with SIGSEGV in g_slice_alloc0()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo users
usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
 deja-dup 25.5-0ubuntu1
 gnome-control-center-signon 0.1.2bzr12.12.05-0ubuntu1

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 __memset_x86_64 () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/../memset.S:337
 memset (__len=16, __ch=0, __dest=0x7f5ed115cb92) at /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/string3.h:84
 g_slice_alloc0 (mem_size=mem_size@entry=16) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.35.8/./glib/gslice.c:1031
 g_object_notify_queue_freeze (object=0x7f5ed22ab740, conditional=conditional@entry=0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.35.8/./gobject/gobject.c:237
 g_object_init (object=0x7f5ed22ab740, class=0x7f5ed1edca30) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.35.8/./gobject/gobject.c:958

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The bug hasn't seen any activity in years and there has been no recent similar reports, the code also changed quite a lot since and it's likely the issue doesn't exist anymore. Closing, feel free to open a new report if you still get problems in recent Ubuntu versions