gnome-control-center crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_is_value_type()

[Lindinaldo]

after login

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.1.4-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.11-generic 3.0.1
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Aug 21 09:15:29 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110728)
ProcCmdline: gnome-control-center display
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANGUAGE=pt_BR:pt:en
 LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xc76b75 <g_type_check_is_value_type+245>: mov (%eax),%eax
 PC (0x00c76b75) ok
 source "(%eax)" (0x8b08ec83) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%eax" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
StacktraceTop:
 g_type_check_is_value_type () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_value_type_compatible () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_object_new_valist () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_object_new () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: gnome-control-center crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_is_value_type()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 type_check_is_value_type_U (type=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.16/./gobject/gtype.c:4091
 g_type_check_is_value_type (type=566287560) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.16/./gobject/gtype.c:4120
 g_value_type_compatible (src_type=566287560, dest_type=568871304) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.16/./gobject/gvalue.c:499
 g_value_object_collect_value (value=0x21f49154, n_collect_values=1, collect_values=0xbffdeb20, collect_flags=0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.16/./gobject/gobject.c:3073
 g_object_new_valist (object_type=568236464, first_property_name=0x12dd8e2 "screen", var_args=0xbffdebac "") at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.16/./gobject/gobject.c:1597

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

I've sent this upstream at: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657469

[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