polkitd crashed with SIGSEGV in dbus_message_iter_append_basic()

[Corey]

Binary package hint: policykit-1

Running lucid, just rebooted my headless fileserver, VNC'd in, and apport was reporting this. I don't know if it was caused by connecting through VNC, or if it was there following the reboot. Reconnecting to the VNC session hasn't brought it back. I think this may be a duplicate of bug 537307, but filing a ticket just in case.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: policykit-1 0.96-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-17.26-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-17-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Mar 27 13:08:49 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd
ProcEnviron:

SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fe7176cb022: pcmpeqb (%rdi),%xmm2
 PC (0x7fe7176cb022) ok
 source "(%rdi)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%xmm2" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: policykit-1
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/libdbus-1.so.3
 ?? () from /lib/libdbus-1.so.3
 dbus_message_iter_append_basic ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libeggdbus-1.so.0
Title: polkitd crashed with SIGSEGV in dbus_message_iter_append_basic()
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[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #509651, so 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.

[Corey (corey-osgood)]

I'd love to check out the other bug report, but apparently it's marked as private...

[Krzysztof Klimonda (kklimonda)]

On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 17:48 +0000, Corey wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 509651 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/509651
>
> I'd love to check out the other bug report, but apparently it's marked
> as private...
>
I've marked the bug you were directed to as public so you can access it.

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Krzysztof Klimonda <email address hidden>