gnome-session crashed with SIGSEGV

[Iain Lane]

Patched g-s-d to force use of the background plugin & enabled it.

Nautilus 3.8.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: gnome-session-bin 3.8.2.1-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.9.0-6.13-generic 3.9.6
Uname: Linux 3.9.0-6-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.10.2-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jun 21 11:11:16 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-session
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-07 (256 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Beta amd64 (20121007)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: gnome-session --session=ubuntu
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x41d76e: mov 0x8(%rax),%rcx
 PC (0x0041d76e) 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-session
Stacktrace:
 #0 0x000000000041d76e in ?? ()
 No symbol table info available.
 Cannot access memory at address 0x7fff02857ab8
StacktraceTop: ?? ()
Title: gnome-session crashed with SIGSEGV
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-05-07 (45 days ago)
UserGroups: adm autopilot cdrom dip kvm libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo vboxusers

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Stacktrace:
 #0 0x000000000041d76e in app_condition_changed (app=0x1d31bc0, app@entry=<error reading variable: Cannot access memory at address 0x7fff02857ab8>, condition=0, condition@entry=<error reading variable: Cannot access memory at address 0x7fff02857ab8>, manager=0x1d10100, manager@entry=<error reading variable: Cannot access memory at address 0x7fff02857ab8>) at gsm-manager.c:432
         error = <error reading variable error (Cannot access memory at address 0x7fff02857a88)>
         res = <optimized out>
         client = 0x0
 Cannot access memory at address 0x7fff02857ab8
StacktraceTop: app_condition_changed (app=0x1d31bc0, app@entry=<error reading variable: Cannot access memory at address 0x7fff02857ab8>, condition=0, condition@entry=<error reading variable: Cannot access memory at address 0x7fff02857ab8>, manager=0x1d10100, manager@entry=<error reading variable: Cannot access memory at address 0x7fff02857ab8>) at gsm-manager.c:432

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

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