[keyboard]: gnome-control-center crashed with SIGSEGV in g_strdup()

[Anna Glasgall]

I opened gnome-control-center on the Saucy final beta and it crashed with the above error. Backtrace and other apport data attached.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu39
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-9.16-generic 3.11.2
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-9-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: openafs
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Sep 28 17:24:25 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-01-03 (268 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: gnome-control-center keyboard
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fb65ee5d5f1 <__strlen_sse2_pminub+17>: movdqu (%rdi),%xmm1
 PC (0x7fb65ee5d5f1) ok
 source "(%rdi)" (0xffffffff0000000a) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%xmm1" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
StacktraceTop:
 g_strdup () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_object_set_valist () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_object_set () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/control-center-1/panels/libkeyboard.so
Title: [keyboard]: gnome-control-center crashed with SIGSEGV in g_strdup()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-09-28 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dialout dip kvm libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare sbuild src sudo
usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
 activity-log-manager 0.9.7-0ubuntu4
 deja-dup 27.3.1-0ubuntu1
 gnome-control-center-datetime 13.10.0+13.10.20130924.2-0ubuntu1
 gnome-control-center-signon 0.1.7~+13.10.20130724.1-0ubuntu1
 gnome-control-center-unity 1.3daily13.06.19~13.04-0ubuntu1

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 g_strdup (str=0xffffffff0000000a <Address 0xffffffff0000000a out of bounds>) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.38.0/./glib/gstrfuncs.c:363
 value_collect_string (value=0x7fff90d23b00, n_collect_values=<optimized out>, collect_values=<optimized out>, collect_flags=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.38.0/./gobject/gvaluetypes.c:293
 g_object_set_valist (object=object@entry=0x35b6a80, first_property_name=first_property_name@entry=0x7fb62c2ca37b "editable", var_args=var_args@entry=0x7fff90d23bc8) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.38.0/./gobject/gobject.c:2116
 g_object_set (_object=_object@entry=0x35b6a80, first_property_name=first_property_name@entry=0x7fb62c2ca37b "editable") at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.38.0/./gobject/gobject.c:2232
 description_set_func (tree_column=<optimized out>, cell=0x35b6a80, model=<optimized out>, iter=<optimized out>, data=<optimized out>) at keyboard-shortcuts.c:773

[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