time-admin crashed with SIGSEGV in strcmp() when trying to select timezone after the configuration couldn't be loaded

[Kalman Reti]

Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools

Booted a desktop karmic alpha-4 livecd and tried to change the timezone. (This works with a Jaunty livecd.)

The first time I try, I get a popup saying that the configuration could not be loaded ("you are not allowed to access the system configuration"). This is probably the original cause of the problems; however, you don't get this popup if you try a second time to click on System/Time and Date, you get the normal dialog window. However it has two problems: 1) the map is missing and the dots representing the cities appear over a black background and 2) if you close the dialog, it crashes with a SEGV.

100% reproducible.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Aug 17 04:16:50 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/time-admin
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Alpha amd64 (20090812.3)
Package: gnome-system-tools 2.27.2-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: time-admin
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-5.24-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f2518751d42 <strcmp+2>: cmp (%rsi),%al
 PC (0x7f2518751d42) ok
 source "(%rsi)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%al" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-system-tools
StacktraceTop:
 strcmp () from /lib/libc.so.6
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 g_closure_invoke ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: time-admin crashed with SIGSEGV in strcmp()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-5-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare