gnome-settings-daemon crashes with SIGSEGV in set_touchpad_enabled()

[Buck Evan]

Binary package hint: gnome-settings-daemon

I'm new at bug reporting, so let me know if I'm doing it wrong.

I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 under VMware with universe multiverse and backports enabled. I have version "2.24.0-0ubuntu3" installed to match the dbgsym package, but the newest version (ubuntu3.2) does the same thing.

# grep Driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf
 Driver "kbd"
 Driver "vmmouse"
        Driver "vmware"

I've attached a backtrace using gdb, but I'm not sure it worked correctly. I installed the dbgsym package for gnome-settings-daemon, but gdb didn't load it automatically, and after using "symbolfile" at the gdb prompt it didn't seem to give much extra information.

I get the randr error (as below), but disabling the xrandr extension from gconf-editor doesn't prevent a crash. 'xrandr' isn't working.

# xrandr -v
Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display "127.0.0.1:1.0".
RandR extension missing

I submitted a report using apport, but don't know how to find it and link it here.

[Buck Evan (bukzor)]

I realized i was supposed to run the 'bt' command in gdb...

(gdb) bt
#0 set_touchpad_enabled (state=<value optimized out>)
    at gsd-mouse-manager.c:441
#1 0xb635d084 in gsd_mouse_manager_start (manager=0x815fca8, error=0xbfbea2b0)
    at gsd-mouse-manager.c:810
#2 0xb635ba1f in impl_activate (plugin=0x815fc90) at gsd-mouse-plugin.c:78
#3 0x0804cbaf in gnome_settings_plugin_info_activate (info=0x8123490)
    at gnome-settings-plugin-info.c:506
#4 0x0804b5be in maybe_activate_plugin (info=0x8123490, user_data=0x0)
    at gnome-settings-manager.c:93
#5 0xb758bec7 in g_slist_foreach () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#6 0x0804b7e5 in gnome_settings_manager_start (manager=0x811aa80,
    error=0xbfbea3c4) at gnome-settings-manager.c:271
#7 0x0804b35f in main (argc=135455712, argv=0x2) at main.c:312