gnome-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in translate_int_int()

[Rodrigo Hernandes]

trying to open the alsa mixer, which also gave problem and has been reported

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-settings-daemon 3.1.92-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Sep 23 23:55:21 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/false
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANGUAGE=pt_BR:pt:en
 LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f3cd693f891: cmpq $0x0,(%rax)
 PC (0x7f3cd693f891) ok
 source "$0x0" ok
 destination "(%rax)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/libxsettings.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/libxsettings.so
 g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: gnome-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in g_closure_invoke()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-24 (0 days ago)
UserGroups:

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 translate_int_int (manager=0x130b680, trans=0x7f3cd6b45420, value=0x7f3cd8019790) at gsd-xsettings-manager.c:140
 process_value (value=0x7f3cd8019790, trans=0x7f3cd6b45420, manager=0x130b680) at gsd-xsettings-manager.c:531
 xsettings_callback (manager=0x130b680, key=<optimized out>, settings=0x130b6d0) at gsd-xsettings-manager.c:576
 xsettings_callback (settings=0x130b6d0, key=<optimized out>, manager=0x130b680) at gsd-xsettings-manager.c:556
 g_closure_invoke (closure=0x13167e0, return_value=0x0, n_param_values=2, param_values=0x1317e30, invocation_hint=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.92/./gobject/gclosure.c:774

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/944039

[Paddy Landau (paddy-landau)]

This happened to me while trying to install Virtual Box Guest Additions.
Running a clean installation of 12.04 Beta 64-bit in Virtual Box.