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

[Andrew Eddinger]

Installed 64-bit drivers for Lexmark Prospect Pro 205 printer. Trying to set up printer when crash occurred.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu16
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-14.24-generic 3.8.4
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-14-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Mon Mar 25 20:39:46 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-03-25 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130325)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: gnome-control-center --overview
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fcbcc4190cf <g_slice_alloc+223>: mov (%rbx),%rax
 PC (0x7fcbcc4190cf) ok
 source "(%rbx)" (0x37887c748000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rax" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
StacktraceTop:
 g_slice_alloc () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_slist_copy_deep () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_type_class_ref () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_object_new_valist () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: [printers]: gnome-control-center crashed with SIGSEGV in g_slice_alloc()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
 deja-dup 25.5-0ubuntu1
 gnome-control-center-signon 0.1.5-0ubuntu1

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 magazine_chain_pop_head (magazine_chunks=0x7fcbd007c660) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.35.9/./glib/gslice.c:532
 thread_memory_magazine1_alloc (ix=<optimized out>, tmem=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.35.9/./glib/gslice.c:835
 g_slice_alloc (mem_size=mem_size@entry=16) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.35.9/./glib/gslice.c:994
 g_slist_copy_deep (list=0x7fcbd00ecc70, func=func@entry=0x0, user_data=user_data@entry=0x0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.35.9/./glib/gslist.c:630
 g_slist_copy (list=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.35.9/./glib/gslist.c:580

[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