seed crashed with SIGSEGV in g_option_context_parse()

[bp]

Binary package hint: seed

This happens consistently when I launch the Lights Off game in Natty.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: seed 2.31.91-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-5.32-generic-pae 2.6.38-rc6
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Feb 25 22:43:50 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/seed
ProcCmdline: seed /usr/share/gnome-games/lightsoff/main.js
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xb768132d <g_option_context_parse+221>: cmpl $0x1,(%ecx)
 PC (0xb768132d) ok
 source "$0x1" ok
 destination "(%ecx)" (0x00000002) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: seed
StacktraceTop:
 g_option_context_parse () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 gtk_clutter_init_with_args () from /usr/lib/libclutter-gtk-0.10.so.0
 ffi_call_SYSV () from /usr/lib/libffi.so.5
 ffi_call () from /usr/lib/libffi.so.5
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgirepository-1.0.so.1
Title: seed crashed with SIGSEGV in g_option_context_parse()
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout fuse libvirtd lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare video

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StacktraceTop:
 g_option_context_parse (context=0x8301e20, argc=0x2, argv=0x83011f8, error=0xbfd5fe88) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.28.1/./glib/goption.c:1749
 gtk_clutter_init_with_args (argc=0x2, argv=0x83011f8, parameter_string=0x0, entries=0x0, translation_domain=0x0, error=0xbfd5fe88) at ./gtk-clutter-util.c:682
 ffi_call_SYSV () at ../src/x86/sysv.S:61
 ffi_call (cif=0xbfd5fe6c, fn=0xb2ef9ab0 <gtk_clutter_init_with_args>, rvalue=0xbfd5ff3c, avalue=0xbfd5fdc0) at ../src/x86/ffi.c:326
 _g_callable_info_invoke (info=0x82323b0, function=0xb2ef9ab0, in_args=0x82ff600, n_in_args=5, out_args=0x82ff638, n_out_args=0, return_value=0xbfd5ff3c, is_method=0, throws=32, error=0xbfd5ff44) at girepository/gicallableinfo.c:496

[Cygwin Ports (yselkowitz)]

This is BGO #630990[1], with fixes already in clutter-gtk[2] and gnome-games[3] git.

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630990
[2] http://git.clutter-project.org/clutter-gtk/commit/?id=f52ed20
[3] http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-games/commit/?id=f355bdc

[Cygwin Ports (yselkowitz)]

Not quite related to the crash, but you'll need this patch as well to get things working:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-games/commit/?id=98b73ad

[Laurent Bonnaud (laurent-bonnaud)]

This bug also appears when trying to run swell-foop:

$ swell-foop
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

[Laurent Bonnaud (laurent-bonnaud)]

I am marking this bug as fixed since:

 - lightsoff and swell-foop no longer depend on seed
 - no other package depends on seed
 - seed does start up without crashing
 - this bug is marked as fixed upstream

Thanks to the Ubuntu devels for the newer package versions that work!

[Laurent Bonnaud (laurent-bonnaud)]

Concerning the upstream bug status discrepancy see bug #1049367.