gnome-control-center crashed with SIGSEGV in strlen() when printing in Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 Yakkety

[fossfreedom]

I'm trying to print in 16.10 Ubuntu GNOME - to print to a HP printer.

From the liveCD the message "failed to add new printer" is observed when selecting the settings-printer icon.

looking at journalctl -ae --full there is a message saying that:

Sep 26 21:42:52 ubuntu-gnome org.fedoraproject.Config.Printing[3725]: /usr/share/system-config-printer/scp-dbus-service.py:26: PyGIW
Sep 26 21:42:52 ubuntu-gnome org.fedoraproject.Config.Printing[3725]: from gi.repository import Gdk
Sep 26 21:42:52 ubuntu-gnome org.fedoraproject.Config.Printing[3725]: /usr/share/system-config-printer/scp-dbus-service.py:27: PyGIW
Sep 26 21:42:52 ubuntu-gnome org.fedoraproject.Config.Printing[3725]: from gi.repository import Gtk

So I installed system-control-printer-gnome

Selecting the printer icon again in settings now produces this crash

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.20.1-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-11.12-generic 4.8.0-rc6
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.378
CrashCounter: 1
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Mon Sep 26 21:47:52 2016
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-GNOME 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Alpha amd64 (20160921)
ProcCmdline: gnome-control-center --overview
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f8f0b455f06 <strlen+38>: movdqu (%rax),%xmm4
 PC (0x7f8f0b455f06) ok
 source "(%rax)" (0xffffffffa60f3bcc) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%xmm4" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
StacktraceTop:
 strlen () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/strlen.S:106
 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_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: gnome-control-center crashed with SIGSEGV in strlen()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #1618290, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[fossfreedom (fossfreedom)]

Hi this is reported to be a duplicate - but there is no duplicate link. Please can this be updated with the link to the linked issue?

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

The problem is that crash bugs are private until a developer or bug triager with the rights access comes along and marks it as public. I've done that now for bug 1618290.

[fossfreedom (fossfreedom)]

Thanks Jeremy - happy to help to debug this for ubuntu gnome - we've seen this for budgie-remix users trying to print to HP printers as well.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Thanks, David. Feel free to comment on bug 1618290 from now on.

I appreciate any help in figuring out what the problem is here.

I don't have a printer right now and the Printer Settings window doesn't crash for me when there's no printer configured.