[apport] update-notifier crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_cast()

[airtonix]

Binary package hint: update-notifier

upgraded some packages....not sure which

error happened upon startup of the desktop.....as in where i could see the notification bar

i didnt do anything...to make it happen.

it set offf some other errors too...

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Apr 1 04:04:36 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-notifier
Package: update-notifier 0.56.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: update-notifier
ProcCwd: /home/airtonix
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: update-notifier
StacktraceTop:
 g_type_check_instance_cast ()
 update_apt_is_running ()
 file_monitor_periodic_check ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? ()
Uname: Linux shitehawk 2.6.20-13-generic #2 SMP Sun Mar 25 00:21:25 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev scanner video

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:update_apt_is_running (ta=0x80bea80, is_running=0) at update.c:221
file_monitor_periodic_check (data=0x80b6620) at update-notifier.c:206
g_timeout_dispatch (source=0x80be348, callback=0x80b5478, user_data=0x80b6620) at gmain.c:3422
IA__g_main_context_dispatch (context=0x8082198) at gmain.c:2045

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

This problem should be fixed in gutsy. We switch to the new GtkStatusIcon to show the icon and that makes the old code (that used EggTrayIcon and GtkImage) go away. Please reopen if you experience this in gutsy again.

Cheers,
 Michael

[bert07 (marien.bert)]

I am installing Xubuntu Gutsy beta release.
Installation went (almost) well; got error messages about broken packages but installation completed anyway.
After logging in as root (I had logged in as user a few times) the updater crashed. Don't know what happened (I'm still novice at Linux).