SIGSEGV in meta_display_get_current_time ()

[Hernando Torque]

Binary package hint: unity

Running the attached python snippet crashes Unity. I know it's stupid code, but it shouldn't be able to bring down the whole shell. Backtrace attached.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: unity 0.2.8-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-3.4-generic 2.6.35-rc3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-3-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jun 16 12:39:59 2010
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity

[Neil J. Patel (njpatel)]

Again, nice catch! Jason, this is another one for you :)

[Hernando Torque (htorque)]

You can confirm it? I just tried it again with Unity 0.2.12-0ubuntu1 and I don't get a crash anymore. Instead I'm getting three deprecation warnings from pygtk:

$ python unity-crash.py
** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (GtkWindow)
** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (GtkInvisible)
** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (GtkObject)

[Hernando Torque (htorque)]

Unity 0.2.14-0ubuntu1: still cannot reproduce it anymore. Please (hopefully) confirm and close. :-)

[Neil J. Patel (njpatel)]

I cannot reproduce this issue either anymore. I'm assuming it got fixed during our clean-up of our Mutter and libwnck-related code. Please re-open if you come across it again at any point.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

marking the ubuntu bug as fixed too. feel free to open this bug again if you see it again :)