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update-manager crashed with SIGSEGV in gdk_keymap_get_direction()

Bug #189493 reported by Martin Pool on 2008-02-06

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #117190: [apport] update-manager crashed with SIGSEGV in gdk_keymap_get_direction(). Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	update-manager (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

I've just upgraded to hardy and rebooted. I tried running update-manager as non-root and with no $DISPLAY. It just crashes rather than giving an error message:

mbp@grace% DISPLAY= update-manager

reproducible for me.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Feb 6 17:50:20 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-manager
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
NonfreeKernelModules: cdrom
Package: update-manager 1:0.87.4
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python2.5 /usr/bin/update-manager
ProcCwd: /home/mbp
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/zsh
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
PATH=/home/mbp/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: update-manager
Stacktrace:
#0 0xb75fa945 in gdk_keymap_get_direction ()
from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
#1 0xb7839cbc in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#2 0x00000000 in ?? ()
StacktraceTop:
gdk_keymap_get_direction ()
?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
?? ()
Title: update-manager crashed with SIGSEGV in gdk_keymap_get_direction()
Uname: Linux grace 2.6.24-5-386 #1 Thu Jan 24 19:04:50 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin mythtv plugdev scanner video

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote on 2008-02-06:

Dependencies.txt Edit (4.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Disassembly.txt Edit (1.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (17.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (676 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Registers.txt Edit (497 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (191 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Greg Grossmeier (greg.grossmeier) wrote on 2008-03-18:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 117190, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.