[power]: gnome-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in g_main_context_dispatch()

[Mal]

Using xinerama so desktop starts in ubuntu-2d, immediately after hitting the desktop get a message telling me gnome-settings-daemon has crashed and needs to send a report. Et volia!

Restarting the daemon from the command line fails with a seg fault:

(gnome-settings-daemon:4208): power-plugin-WARNING **: Unable to start power manager: RandR extension is not present
(gnome-settings-daemon:4208): color-plugin-WARNING **: Unable to start color manager: RandR extension is not present
(gnome-settings-daemon:4208): xrandr-plugin-WARNING **: Unable to start xrandr manager: RandR extension is not present
[1] + segmentation fault (core dumped) gnome-settings-daemon

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnome-settings-daemon 3.4.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Tue Apr 17 10:10:11 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120328)
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f0810558c1a: mov 0x8(%rbp),%r11d
 PC (0x7f0810558c1a) ok
 source "0x8(%rbp)" (0x00000008) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%r11d" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/libpower.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/libpower.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/libpower.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
 g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: [power]: gnome-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in g_main_context_dispatch()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #969535, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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