ua_location_service_create_controller() crashes

[vlotho]

gilles@gilles-MSI-Notebook-VR610:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu Utopic Unicorn (development branch)
Release: 14.10
gilles@gilles-MSI-Notebook-VR610:~$ apt-cache policy indicator-location
indicator-location:
  Installé : 13.10.0+14.10.20140718-0ubuntu1
  Candidat : 13.10.0+14.10.20140718-0ubuntu1
 Table de version :
 *** 13.10.0+14.10.20140718-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: indicator-location 13.10.0+14.10.20140718-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-5.10-generic 3.16.0-rc6
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-5-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.5-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Aug 11 11:10:29 2014
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/indicator-location/indicator-location-service
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-11-11 (272 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20131110)
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/indicator-location/indicator-location-service
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANGUAGE=fr_FR
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: indicator-location
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libubuntu_application_api.so.2
 ua_location_service_create_controller () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libubuntu_application_api.so.2
 UbuntuAppLocController::UbuntuAppLocController() ()
 main ()
SystemImageInfo:
 current build number: 0
 device name:
 channel: daily
 last update: Unknown
Title: indicator-location-service crashed with SIGABRT in ua_location_service_create_controller()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-06-11 (60 days ago)
UserGroups: adm autopilot cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 internal::ToBackend::exit_module (msg=msg@entry=0x7f89333f5b08 "Unable to find module configuration file") at /build/buildd/platform-api-2.2.0+14.10.20140801/src/ubuntu/application/base_module.h:84
 internal::ToBackend::path () at /build/buildd/platform-api-2.2.0+14.10.20140801/src/ubuntu/application/base_module.h:55
 path () at /build/buildd/platform-api-2.2.0+14.10.20140801/src/ubuntu/application/ubuntu_application_api.cpp:225
 Bridge (this=0x7f89335fa5c8 <internal::Bridge<internal::ToBackend>::instance()::bridge>) at /build/buildd/platform-api-2.2.0+14.10.20140801/src/ubuntu/application/../../bridge/bridge.h:51
 instance () at /build/buildd/platform-api-2.2.0+14.10.20140801/src/ubuntu/application/../../bridge/bridge.h:41

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue started in vivid and is one of the most reported on e.u.c, https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/375ff448c30eaac105e835eda789b285b14bf025

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

This was worked around as a side-effect of <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~indicator-applet-developers/indicator-location/trunk.16.04/revision/145> which replaced platform-api calls with a local dbus proxy for location-service.

Leaving this ticket open for indicator-location as it would be preferable to go through platform-api when possible.