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

[Scott_W]

When clicking the Appearance option in the Gnome Control Centre, the application crashes with the stated error code.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.2.0-0ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Oct 17 20:28:08 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center
ProcCmdline: gnome-control-center --overview
ProcCwd: /home/scott
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fe06dbef1a0: mov 0x8(%rax),%rcx
 PC (0x7fe06dbef1a0) ok
 source "0x8(%rax)" (0x00000008) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rcx" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/control-center-1/panels/libbackground.so
 g_simple_async_result_complete () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
 g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: gnome-control-center crashed with SIGSEGV in g_simple_async_result_complete()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-15 (2 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
XsessionErrors:
 (nautilus:1831): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_action_set_visible: assertion `GTK_IS_ACTION (action)' failed
 (nautilus:1831): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_action_set_visible: assertion `GTK_IS_ACTION (action)' failed
 (gwibber-service:2203): libindicate-WARNING **: Menu being changed when the indicator is visible. Listeners will NOT be notified of this change.
usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
 deja-dup 20.0-0ubuntu3
 gnome-bluetooth 3.2.0-0ubuntu1
 indicator-datetime 0.3.0-0ubuntu3

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 picture_scaled (source_object=<optimized out>, res=<optimized out>, user_data=<optimized out>) at bg-pictures-source.c:151
 g_simple_async_result_complete (simple=0x7fe08a11baa0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.30.0/./gio/gsimpleasyncresult.c:749
 complete_in_idle_cb_for_thread (_data=0x7fe08a162910) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.30.0/./gio/gsimpleasyncresult.c:817
 g_main_dispatch (context=0x7fe089c9ff30) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.30.0/./glib/gmain.c:2441
 g_main_context_dispatch (context=0x7fe089c9ff30) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.30.0/./glib/gmain.c:3011

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Hanine HAMZIOUI (hanynowsky)]

I confirm the bug on PRECISE (Opened System Settings and crash happened right after clicking on exit button).

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue got fixed upstream in https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-control-center/commit/?id=f9c0732a6c4d1d01e23d35e385e44caee93c5f29