GNU backgammon crashed soon after start up

[Kieron Browne]

Description: Ubuntu Utopic Unicorn (development branch)
Release: 14.10
Upgraded from 14.04 15th October 2014.

Problem with gnubg 1.02.000-2

Open backgammon. Board displays. Click background to start game. Dice appear. Click dice: application crashes.

If started in terminal, get:

(No game) set gui showids on
(No game) save settings
(No game) new match
Attempt to unlock mutex that was not locked
Aborted (core dumped)

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: gnubg 1.02.000-2
Uname: Linux 3.17.0-rc5-dirty x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Oct 15 21:30:43 2014
ExecutablePath: /usr/games/gnubg
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-03-23 (571 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130322)
ProcCmdline: gnubg -w
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: gnubg
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 Mutex_Release ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: gnubg crashed with SIGABRT in Mutex_Release()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-10-15 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo www-data

[Kieron Browne (kieron-browne)]

I was running a custom kernel, so I've rebooted into 3.16.0-22-generic but I still get the same problem.

[Kieron Browne (kieron-browne)]

Appears to be related to bug #1346567

[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 #1378603, 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.

[benjamin (jesuisbenjamin)]

GNUBG crashing on Elementary OS Freya