hardinfo crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_cast()

[Rick Flynn]

hardinfo crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_cast()

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: hardinfo 0.5.1-1.1ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-9.16-generic-pae 3.2.1
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-9-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jan 17 19:14:13 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/hardinfo
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20120111)
ProcCmdline: hardinfo
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x5f1a3e <g_type_check_instance_cast+46>: mov (%edx),%eax
 PC (0x005f1a3e) ok
 source "(%edx)" (0xaaaaaaaa) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%eax" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: hardinfo
StacktraceTop:
 g_type_check_instance_cast () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 widget_set_cursor ()
 shell_view_set_enabled ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/hardinfo/modules/benchmark.so
 scan_fft () from /usr/lib/hardinfo/modules/benchmark.so
Title: hardinfo crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_cast()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-12 (5 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

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StacktraceTop:
 g_type_check_instance_cast (type_instance=0xaaaaaaaa, iface_type=163531320) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.10/./gobject/gtype.c:3993
 widget_set_cursor (widget=0x9c23800, cursor_type=GDK_WATCH) at util.c:159
 shell_view_set_enabled (setting=0) at shell.c:247
 benchmark_fft () at ./arch/common/fft.h:37
 scan_fft (reload=0) at benchmark.c:278

[Burt P. (pburt0)]

As of Ubuntu 17.10 there is a much newer package available with many fixes and improvements. Please try it and see if the issue is resolved.

See https://github.com/lpereira/hardinfo/issues/163.

[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

I cannot confirm this using the package from Bionic.