Comment 0 for bug 792999

Binary package hint: metacity

On an Oneiric i386 system in a unity-2d session, metacity 1:2.34.0-0ubuntu1 crashed with SIGABRT in __kernel_vsyscall(). This appeared to occur immediately after running a command with sudo 1.7.4p6-1ubuntu1 for the first time since rebooting. The crash occurred while I was being prompted for my password, so I don't believe it's caused by the specific command I ran with sudo. I have not been able to reproduce this crash. I have tried running a command with sudo again shortly thereafter, then again after running "sudo -k", and then again after running "sudo -K", then again in a separate Terminal window, but the crash did not recur. It's quite possible that the crash occurring right after I used sudo was a coincidence, and that there is no causal relationship between sudo and this metacity crash.

About twenty seconds after this crash occurred, the recurring crash documented in bug 788714 happened. I have no particular reason to think that crash is related either, though it's notable that they're both SIGABRT's.

Finally, it is worth noting that this crash looks a lot like the old, unresolved crash from Lucid Beta 1 described in bug 543193. Perhaps this should be marked as a duplicate of that bug (or that bug marked a duplicate of this one).

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: metacity 1:2.34.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.39-3.10-generic 2.6.39
Uname: Linux 2.6.39-3-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jun 4 22:57:23 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/metacity
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110604)
ProcCmdline: metacity
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/false
 PATH=(custom, no user)
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: metacity
StacktraceTop:
 __kernel_vsyscall ()
 raise () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
Title: metacity crashed with SIGABRT in __kernel_vsyscall()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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