gnome-control-center crashed with SIGABRT in __kernel_vsyscall()

[boniek]

Printers -> Add new printer
Crash ensues.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.1.3-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-5.6-generic-pae 3.0.0-rc7
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-5-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jul 14 20:52:09 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center
ProcCmdline: gnome-control-center printers
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
StacktraceTop:
 __kernel_vsyscall ()
 raise () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 g_assertion_message () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_assertion_message_expr () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: gnome-control-center crashed with SIGABRT in __kernel_vsyscall()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 __kernel_vsyscall ()
 raise (sig=6) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:64
 abort () at abort.c:92
 g_assertion_message (domain=0xb6ef2d06 "GLib", file=0xb6f3b1a8 "/build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.10/./glib/gvarianttypeinfo.c", line=165, func=0xb6f3b3f0 "g_variant_type_info_check", message=<value optimized out>) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.10/./glib/gtestutils.c:1425
 g_assertion_message_expr (domain=0xb6ef2d06 "GLib", file=0xb6f3b1a8 "/build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.10/./glib/gvarianttypeinfo.c", line=165, func=0xb6f3b3f0 "g_variant_type_info_check", expr=0xb6f3b220 "info->alignment == 0 || info->alignment == 1 || info->alignment == 3 || info->alignment == 7") at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.10/./glib/gtestutils.c:1436

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

I had a similiar behaviour while I was trying to add a new online account, please see bug 819408