unity-greeter crashed with SIGSEGV in start_thread()

[James Tait]

I'm not sure at exactly which stage of proceedings this crash occurred. I got the notification upon login after rebooting to complete the day's updates.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity-greeter 0.2.5-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-19.30-generic 3.2.11
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-19-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Mar 19 10:36:03 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/unity-greeter
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
ProcCmdline: /usr/sbin/unity-greeter
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/false
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x40aff0: mov %eax,0x3c(%rdx)
 PC (0x0040aff0) ok
 source "%eax" ok
 destination "0x3c(%rdx)" (0x0000003c) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
 Stack memory exhausted (SP below stack segment)
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: unity-greeter
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 start_thread () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
 clone () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? ()
Title: unity-greeter crashed with SIGSEGV in start_thread()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-13 (65 days ago)
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