9.10 (Karmic): gnome-volume-control segmentation fault on startup (crashed with SIGSEGV in _int_free())
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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pango-graphite (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-media
I was trying to fill in this bug earlier and firefox crashed (it has been doing that a lot lately) so I had to start over. Hopefully I did not create any duplicates.
Ubuntu guidelines:
Please include, if possible:
The source package you found the bug in, for help see https:/
gnome-media
This is the package that contains gnome-volume-
1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System -> About Ubuntu.
rifter@leviathan$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10
2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy packagename' or by checking in Synaptic.
rifter@leviathan$ apt-cache policy gnome-media
gnome-media:
Installed: 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 2.28.1-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
3) What you expected to happen
The sound preferences dialog should have opened.
4) What happened instead
gnome-volume-
When I start gnome-volume-
I installed all the debug packages I could find from the regular repositories and, where there were none there, ddeb as described in the following:
https:/
https:/
https:/
https:/
Some further information that might be relevant:
I am using the AMD 64 bit Ubuntu Desktop version 9.10
rifter@leviathan$ uname -a
Linux leviathan 2.6.31-20-server #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 12 05:40:05 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
gnome-volume-
Also, some weird things have been happening on my system ever since I installed some fonts from synaptic (firefox crashes regularly, the appearance preferences crash instead of starting, and some apps like xchat have font rendering problems). I am looking into getting rid of them to see if that helps anything, but I am not sure the gnome-volume-
I also recently installed libsdl1.2debian-all and had previously either libsdl1.
In any case I am only including this information in the interest of completeness in case it seems relevant. I want to focus on fixing gnome-volume-
ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Apr 14 18:30:17 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: gnome-media 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: gnome-volume-
ProcCwd: /home/rifter
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSign
SegvAnalysis:
Segfault happened at: 0x7f151bdb040a <_int_free+970>: cmp 0x18(%rax),%r12
PC (0x7f151bdb040a) ok
source "0x18(%rax)" (0x100000000029) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
destination "%r12" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-media
StacktraceTop:
_int_free (av=0x7f151c0a3e40, p=0x180c490)
*__GI___libc_free (mem=<value optimized out>)
graphite_
pango_shape (text=0x180a606 "", length=1,
shape_run (line=0x1536050, state=0x7fff391
Title: gnome-volume-
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-server x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
One other thing ... I know that I have installed several updates from update manager since the font problem. It could just as well be that one of these broke gnome-volume- control.