Comment 12 for bug 518127

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote : Re: [Bug 518127] Re: software-center crashed when closing screenshot viewer

Fixed for me too

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Kiwinote <email address hidden> wrote:

> This bug appears to have been fixed by the latest updates (possibly the
> gtk+ update). I won't mark it as such just yet because of the vast
> number of duplicates. Once there a few confirmations that this bug
> really has been resolved by all the latest updates, then we can mark
> this one as fix released.
>
> --
> software-center crashed when closing screenshot viewer
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/518127
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> software-center in ubuntu.
>
> Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Pressing "close" on the screen shot preview button crashes Ubuntu Software
> Centre
>
> Step to repro:
> 1. launch Ubuntu Software Centre
> 2. Select a category
> 3. Select an application you wish to install
> 3. Select "More Info"
> 4. Click on Screenshot
> 5. Click "close"
>
> Boom.... Ubuntu control centre crahses.
>
> If you click on the window close button (top right corner of the window)
> the entire Ubuntu software centre closes. That is also a bug.
>
> ProblemType: Crash
> Architecture: i386
> CrashCounter: 1
> Date: Sat Feb 6 10:05:32 2010
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386
> (20100113)
> InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
> Package: software-center 1.1.10
> PackageArchitecture: all
> ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_CA.utf8
> SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-12.17-generic
> SegvAnalysis:
> Segfault happened at: 0x26336a0: mov 0x78(%edx),%ecx
> PC (0x026336a0) ok
> source "0x78(%edx)" (0x00000078) not located in a known VMA region (needed
> readable region)!
> destination "%ecx" ok
> SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
> Signal: 11
> SourcePackage: software-center
> StacktraceTop:
> ?? () from /usr/lib/libwebkit-1.0.so.2
> ?? () from /usr/lib/libwebkit-1.0.so.2
> ?? () from /usr/lib/libwebkit-1.0.so.2
> ?? () from /usr/lib/libwebkit-1.0.so.2
> ?? () from /usr/lib/libwebkit-1.0.so.2
> Title: software-center crashed with SIGSEGV
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-12-generic i686
> UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
>
> One way of fixing this would be to implement <
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter#software-item-screen>: "Activating
> the screenshot (by clicking it, or pressing Enter when it is focused) should
> open it in your preferred image viewer." (That is, having USC not use its
> own screenshot window at all.)
>
>
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