xfce4-notifyd crashed with SIGSEGV in strncpy()

[Korrigan Nagirrok]

Completely unaware of what caused the crash.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: xfce4-notifyd 0.4.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.14.0-11.13-generic 4.14.3
Uname: Linux 4.14.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Dec 14 15:33:18 2017
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/notifyd/xfce4-notifyd
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-11-13 (31 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20171110)
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/notifyd/xfce4-notifyd
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f872f597152 <__strncpy_ssse3+7506>: mov %eax,(%rdx)
 PC (0x7f872f597152) ok
 source "%eax" ok
 destination "(%rdx)" (0x7f872fb1a030) in non-writable VMA region: 0x7f872fa27000-0x7f872fb38000 r-xp /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0.5400.1
SegvReason: writing VMA /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0.5400.1
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: xfce4-notifyd
StacktraceTop:
 g_strndup () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_variant_type_info_get () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_variant_builder_end () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: xfce4-notifyd crashed with SIGSEGV in g_strndup()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 strncpy (__len=4, __src=0x7f871800d930 "{gv}\207\177", __dest=<optimized out>) at /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/string_fortified.h:106
 g_strndup (str=0x7f871800d930 "{gv}\207\177", n=4) at ../../../../glib/gstrfuncs.c:426
 g_variant_type_dup_string (type=type@entry=0x7f871800d930) at ../../../../glib/gvarianttype.c:446
 g_variant_type_info_get (type=type@entry=0x7f871800d930) at ../../../../glib/gvarianttypeinfo.c:741
 g_variant_alloc (trusted=1, serialised=0, type=0x7f871800d930) at ../../../../glib/gvariant-core.c:477

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sean Davis (bluesabre)]

Seems to be a one-off error on a now-EOL Xubuntu release. Marking as closed.