[gnome3-team/staging ppa] gpartedbin crashed with SIGSEGV in Glib::wrap_register_init()

[dino99]

get that crash several times when i either call it via the System Tools or the terminal

note: that system is using the gnome3-team/staging packages (aka libglibmm 2.43.2)

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: gparted 0.19.0-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-12.12-generic 3.19.3
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-12-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.17-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Fri Apr 10 06:33:06 2015
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/gpartedbin
ProcCmdline: /usr/sbin/gpartedbin
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xb7297506 <_ZN4Glib13wrap_registerEmPFPNS_10ObjectBaseEP8_GObjectE+38>: mov 0x4(%eax),%edx
 PC (0xb7297506) ok
 source "0x4(%eax)" (0x00000004) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%edx" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gparted
StacktraceTop:
 Glib::wrap_register(unsigned long, Glib::ObjectBase* (*)(_GObject*)) () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglibmm-2.4.so.1
 Glib::wrap_init() () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglibmm-2.4.so.1
 Glib::Error::register_init() () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglibmm-2.4.so.1
 Glib::thread_init_impl() () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglibmm-2.4.so.1
 Glib::thread_init(_GThreadFunctions*) () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglibmm-2.4.so.1
Title: gpartedbin crashed with SIGSEGV in Glib::wrap_register()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

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StacktraceSource:
 #0 0xb7297506 in Glib::wrap_register_init() () from /tmp/apport_sandbox_y6xmfZ/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglibmm-2.4.so.1
 #1 0xb67d972e in __libc_start_main (main=0x1, argc=134597256, argv=0x0, init=0x805caa9 <_start+33>, fini=0x805c310 <main(int, char**)>, rtld_fini=0x1, stack_end=0xbfc01424) at libc-start.c:289
   [Error: libc-start.c was not found in source tree]
 #2 0xb7768000 in ?? () from /tmp/apport_sandbox_y6xmfZ/lib/ld-linux.so.2
StacktraceTop:
 Glib::wrap_register_init() () from /tmp/apport_sandbox_y6xmfZ/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglibmm-2.4.so.1
 __libc_start_main (main=0x1, argc=134597256, argv=0x0, init=0x805caa9 <_start+33>, fini=0x805c310 <main(int, char**)>, rtld_fini=0x1, stack_end=0xbfc01424) at libc-start.c:289
 ?? () from /tmp/apport_sandbox_y6xmfZ/lib/ld-linux.so.2

[dino99 (9d9)]

the latest stable version is 0.22 http://gparted.org/news.php and brings important features about systemd & gpt

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Curtis Gedak (gedakc)]

This looks like the following upstream bug report:

GParted 0.19.0-2 segfaults with error in Glib::wrap_register()
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=743399

A patch to glibmm has been submitted and committed to glibmm upstream. See bug report:

core dump in wrap_register() when calling deprecated Glib::thread_init()
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=743466

[dino99 (9d9)]

Feedback from Wily i386

Thanks Curtis for pointing the upstream reports

latest wily's glibmm 2.44.0-1 changelog does not tell if that commit is integrated or not:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/glibmm/commit/?id=10e24926a149c8dbfbc5853b2d4ff5a4cd50bc4b

but gparted 0.19.0-2.1 now load without crashing, and there is no warning/error shown in a terminal.

So the problem is solved on Wily

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

The gnome3 ppa ships the buggy version of glibmm. Since it isn't in Ubuntu I'm closing this bug. You might email the gnome3 ppa folks and let them know about it and ask them to update their glibmm.

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