polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 segfault at 14 ip b7059eb8 sp bfcb8570 error 4 in libglib-2.0.so.0.2791.0

[dino99]

Binary package hint: policykit-1-gnome

natty i386 updated

into kernel.log, get:

kernel: [ 2147.594478] polkit-gnome-au[2671]: segfault at 14 ip b7059eb8 sp bfcb8570 error 4 in libglib-2.0.so.0.2791.0[b7036000+d1000]
kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.
kernel: imklog 4.6.4, log source = /proc/kmsg started.

it try to read from an unreadable VMA

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: policykit-1-gnome 0.99-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-12.26-generic-pae 2.6.37
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-12-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jan 24 08:12:49 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fr_FR:fr:en_GB:en
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xb7059eb8 <g_datalist_id_set_data_full+744>: cmp 0x4(%eax),%edi
 PC (0xb7059eb8) ok
 source "0x4(%eax)" (0x00000014) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%edi" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: policykit-1-gnome
StacktraceTop:
 g_datalist_id_set_data_full () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_object_unref () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? ()
 __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
 ?? ()
Title: polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 crashed with SIGSEGV in g_datalist_id_set_data_full()
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StacktraceTop:
 g_datalist_id_set_data_full (datalist=0x8c37288, key_id=52,
 ?? ()

[dino99 (9d9)]

how i get this issue:

having trouble to boot, i've removed vt.handle=7 from 10_linux but keep "quiet splash". That way the system boot normally but this segfault happen.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 697095, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.