gnome-volume-control crashed with SIGSEGV in strcmp()

[Pauan]

Binary package hint: gnome-media

My apologies if this has already been reported, but the reports I looked at seemed different.

I cannot seem at all to find a particular reason for this crash; some time ago the gnome-volume-control stopped working. When right clicking on the Volume Applet and clicking "Open Volume Control" the program would show up in the bottom task bar then close. After opening gnome-volume-control with a terminal I found it was a segmentation fault. That is all I know, sadly.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Dec 7 22:55:13 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-volume-control
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia cdrom
Package: gnome-media 2.20.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: gnome-volume-control
ProcCwd: /mnt/pauan
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-media
Stacktrace:
 #0 0xb71b6028 in strcmp () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 #1 0x0804f881 in ?? ()
 #2 0x00000000 in ?? ()
StacktraceTop:
 strcmp () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
Title: gnome-volume-control crashed with SIGSEGV in strcmp()
Uname: Linux pauan-no-box 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip fax floppy fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev scanner tape video

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StacktraceTop:strcmp () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
?? ()
?? ()

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your bug report. Please try to obtain a backtrace http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and attach the file to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[Pauan (pcxunlimited)]

Will this do?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your report, that's known upstream you can track it here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=441641

[Léa GRIS (lea-gris)]

This bug appeared wiith 8.04 on my Nforce4
05:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies Inc. VT1720/24 [Envy24PT/HT] PCI Multi-Channel Audio Controller (rev 01)

crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 0 2008-05-07 09:26 /dev/snd/controlC0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 24 2008-05-08 22:37 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 16 2008-05-08 22:37 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 17 2008-05-07 09:26 /dev/snd/pcmC0D1p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 18 2008-05-07 09:26 /dev/snd/pcmC0D2p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 1 2008-05-07 09:26 /dev/snd/seq
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 33 2008-05-07 09:26 /dev/snd/timer

No problems with sound, or mixing with alsamixer.

[Léa GRIS (lea-gris)]

As suggested in:
<http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=441641#c5>

This workaround Alsa Bug patch to track.c work well here.

[Léa GRIS (lea-gris)]

Waiting for the package maintainer to validate this patch.

Here is a patched binary replacement for gnome-volume-control suited for IA32. Use it at your own risks or wait for an updated package.

[Léa GRIS (lea-gris)]

Emailed the maintainers Ronald and Thomas, asking for a review.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

fixed upstream, thanks for reporting.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the new version is in intrepid now