mate-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in XKeysymToKeycode()

[Chris Gregan]

daemon simply crashes on launch after install.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: mate-settings-daemon 1.18.1-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-12.13-generic 4.13.3
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Oct 9 16:43:27 2017
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/mate-settings-daemon
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-07-01 (465 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/mate-settings-daemon
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f1641e21f41 <XKeysymToKeycode+33>: cmpq $0x0,0x20(%rax)
 PC (0x7f1641e21f41) ok
 source "$0x0" ok
 destination "0x20(%rax)" (0x00000021) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: mate-settings-daemon
StacktraceTop:
 XKeysymToKeycode () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mate-settings-daemon/libxrandr.so
 g_type_create_instance () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_object_new_with_properties () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: mate-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in XKeysymToKeycode()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-10-06 (3 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo

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StacktraceTop:
 XKeysymToKeycode (dpy=dpy@entry=0x555a28bc72d0, ks=269025113) at ../../../src/xkb/XKBBind.c:157
 get_keycode_for_keysym_name (name=0x7f1635d9d72e "XF86Display") at msd-xrandr-manager.c:2463
 msd_xrandr_manager_init (manager=0x555a28d2bd90) at msd-xrandr-manager.c:2471
 g_type_create_instance (type=<optimized out>) at ../../../../gobject/gtype.c:1866
 g_object_new_internal (class=class@entry=0x555a28c85150, params=params@entry=0x0, n_params=n_params@entry=0) at ../../../../gobject/gobject.c:1797

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report. Does it crahes under xorg? (select ubuntu-xorg in the list of sessions on the login screen)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for mate-settings-daemon (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]