gnome-appearance-properties crashed with SIGSEGV in main()

[John Vivirito]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

On gnome menu choosing System -> Preferences -> Appearance I get this crash. It is 100% reproducible.
I just reinstalled Lucid yesterday.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Feb 3 06:18:02 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-appearance-properties
InstallationMedia: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/installer/media-info'
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.29.6-0ubuntu3
ProcCmdline: gnome-appearance-properties
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-12.16-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x805cdfc <main+988>: repz cmpsb %es:(%edi),%ds:(%esi)
 PC (0x0805cdfc) ok
 source "%es:(%edi)" (0x080745c8) ok
 destination "%ds:(%esi)" (0x0000007b) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
Stacktrace:
 #0 0x0805cdfc in main ()
 No symbol table info available.
StacktraceTop: main ()
ThreadStacktrace:
 .
 Thread 1 (Thread 23223):
 #0 0x0805cdfc in main ()
 No symbol table info available.
Title: gnome-appearance-properties crashed with SIGSEGV in main()
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-12-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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