python2.7 crashed with signal 5 in g_object_newv()

[Daniel Aleksandersen]

Steps to reproduce:

from gi.repository import Gio
Gio.Settings.new('com.example.nonexistent')

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: python2.7-minimal 2.7.3-16ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-12.21-generic 3.8.2
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.9.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Fri Mar 15 22:32:33 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/python2.7
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-01-03 (71 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: python
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: python2.7
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_object_newv () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_object_new_valist () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_object_new () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: python2.7 crashed with signal 5 in g_object_newv()
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StacktraceSource:
 #0 0x00007f0dbd8f72b5 in ?? ()
 #1 0xffffffffffffffff in ?? ()
 #2 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

That's a design decision of Gio. It aborts with an assertion error if you try to load an invalid example. This is rather inconvenient in many cases, but not something we want to work around in pygobject.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Err, I meant to say "invalid schema", not "invalid example".

[Daniel Aleksandersen (da2x)]

Who gets away with calling a crash “a design decision.”