[xsettings]: gnome-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in on_shell_disappeared()

Bug #1223657 reported by bhatta
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This bug affects 6 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

I installed Faenza Icon set and after that the system crashed. Used tty1 to reboot and still got no xserver, used tty1 to uninstall Faenza iconset, now normal boot, but all extensions of gnome are set back to initial stage.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: gnome-settings-daemon 3.8.5-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-2.1-lowlatency 3.11.0-rc5
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-2-lowlatency x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.12.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Sep 11 10:16:08 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-09-09 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Alpha amd64 (20130903)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_IN:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/false
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fe69c1a0877: movl $0x0,0x38(%rax)
 PC (0x7fe69c1a0877) ok
 source "$0x0" ok
 destination "0x38(%rax)" (0xaaaaaaaaaaaaaae2) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/libxsettings.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
 ffi_call_unix64 () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6
 ffi_call () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6
 g_cclosure_marshal_generic () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: [xsettings]: gnome-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in ffi_call_unix64()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

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bhatta (bhattacharya-abhishek) wrote :
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote :

StacktraceTop:
 on_shell_disappeared (connection=<optimized out>, name=0x2551a10 "org.gnome.Shell", user_data=0x251d5a0) at gsd-xsettings-manager.c:748
 do_call (client=0x253ad80, call_type=CALL_TYPE_NAME_VANISHED) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.37.7/./gio/gdbusnamewatching.c:216
 ffi_call_unix64 () at ../src/x86/unix64.S:76
 ffi_call (cif=cif@entry=0x7fff94264800, fn=0x7fe6ad166f10 <on_connection_disconnected>, rvalue=0x7fff94264770, avalue=avalue@entry=0x7fff94264710) at ../src/x86/ffi64.c:522
 g_cclosure_marshal_generic (closure=0x257f8b0, return_gvalue=0x0, n_param_values=<optimized out>, param_values=<optimized out>, invocation_hint=<optimized out>, marshal_data=0x0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.37.7/./gobject/gclosure.c:1454

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Changed in gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
summary: [xsettings]: gnome-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in
- ffi_call_unix64()
+ on_shell_disappeared()
tags: removed: need-amd64-retrace
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
information type: Private → Public
tags: added: bugpattern-needed
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