bonobo-activation-server crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_cast()

[Michael Losonsky]

Did nothing except boot up. Calendar, network-manager and other applets
next to the log-off switch did not load.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Tue Feb 12 11:38:57 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/bonobo-activation/bonobo-activation-server
NonfreeKernelModules: cdrom
Package: libbonobo2-0 2.21.90-1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/bonobo-activation/bonobo-activation-server --ac-activate --ior-output-fd=28
ProcCwd: /
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: libbonobo
StacktraceTop:
 g_type_check_instance_cast ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
Title: bonobo-activation-server crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_cast()
Uname: Linux philosnb01 2.6.24-7-generic #1 SMP Thu Feb 7 01:29:58 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev sambashare scanner video

[Michael Losonsky (michl)]

I should add that this problem occurred only after I
did the most recent updates available today (12.2.2008)
via the update manager.

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
?? ()
?? ()
link_connection_try_reconnect (cnx=0xaaaaaaaa) at linc-connection.c:664
ORBit_try_connection_T (obj=0x80ac1d8) at corba-object.c:284

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
?? ()
?? ()
link_connection_try_reconnect (cnx=0xaaaaaaaa) at linc-connection.c:664
ORBit_try_connection_T (obj=0x80ac1d8) at corba-object.c:284

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your bug report. Please try to obtain a backtrace http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and attach the file to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[Michael Losonsky (michl)]

If it happens again I will, but I don't know how to reproduce it or if
I want to spend the time reproducing it. It crashed and I sent the
automatic crash report. The crash happened the day all those other
crashes were happening after the buggy hardy update. It could
be that the revisions took care of it. I will reboot several times today
to see if it happens again.

[mabovo (mabovo)]

It is easy to reproduce, just keep pressing ctrl+alt+backspace until a message display warning about couldn't initialize gnome-settings-daemon, so after reboot apport finish the job.

[Jonathan Jesse (jjesse)]

all of the applicqations i were using were locked, ctrl+alt+backspace, and upon relogging in recieved this notificiation.

[marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra)]

same here: all of the applications i were using were locked, ctrl+alt+backspace, and upon relogging in recieved this notificiation.

thank you

[NullHead (nu11h3ad)]

I to just had the whole X display just poof ... it never crashed, but it just seemingly just instantly restarted when I attempted to maximize a window. Bug buddy said it was going to report the same exact title as this bug. So I'm just voicing that I had the same problem.

[McDope (tobiasbaeumer)]

i was away some time and when i came back i couldn't use the system - the screen was auto-faded to black and didn't come back even after some key spamming and switching to another tty and back. i ctrl-atl-del'ed and recieved the crash report

[Michael Boratko (boratko)]

Same here - no panels at all (top or bottom) in Gnome. Ctrl-Alt-Backspaced several times, even started X from terminal session and could not get panels to reload. Restarted and panels are now present.