Comment 9 for bug 280532

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Daniel Holbert <
<email address hidden> <dholbert%<email address hidden>>> wrote:

> Just in case it's not obvious: this crash happens *before* xorg.conf is
> modified. So, there's currently no way to get my "nvidia-settings"
> preferences into my xorg.conf, aside from hand-editing it.
>
> --
> nvidia-settings crashed with SIGSEGV in g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID()
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/280532
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> Status in "nvidia-settings" source package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: nvidia-settings
>
> Mythbubtu 8.10 Beta up to date 10/8/08 8PM. Experience same results from
> initial install.
>
> Video card: PNY Geforce 7600 GT 256MB PCI-E
> Had to add 'vmalloc=192M pci=nommconf' to kernal boot parameters for X to
> load with restricted drivers, 177 beta
> Dual core AMD Athlon X2 64 bit processor was contributing to restricted
> driver issue from what I gather after much googling
>
> Was trying to implement a clone twinview config with svideo TV out as
> second display. Hitting "Apply" button affectively sets the displays but
> the "Save to Xorg.conf" button crashed the program with above error.
>
> ProblemType: Crash
> Architecture: i386
> CrashCounter: 1
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nvidia-settings
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: nvidia-settings 173.14.09-1ubuntu3
> ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
> ProcCmdline: nvidia-settings
> ProcEnviron:
>
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> Signal: 11
> SourcePackage: nvidia-settings
> StacktraceTop:
> ?? ()
> ?? ()
> ?? ()
> g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID ()
> g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
> Title: nvidia-settings crashed with SIGSEGV in
> g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID()
> Uname: Linux 2.6.27-4-generic i686
> UserGroups:

It seems this happened because I was saving xorg.conf as a User not as a
Root, I receive updates today, now work fine, Thanks.