xfce4-power-manager crashed when changing status, i.e. when power adapter is removed

[Andrew Stebbing]

When unpluging or pluging in the power adapter on an Asus ux31a laptop. Also crashes when resuming after suspension

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: xfce4-power-manager 1.2.0-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-16.25-generic 3.5.4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.5.3-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Sun Sep 30 16:24:51 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/xfce4-power-manager
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Beta amd64 (20120926)
ProcCmdline: xfce4-power-manager
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fe05b3acd7a <vfprintf+10042>: repnz scas %es:(%rdi),%al
 PC (0x7fe05b3acd7a) ok
 source "%es:(%rdi)" (0x0000005d) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%al" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: xfce4-power-manager
StacktraceTop:
 vfprintf () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 __vasprintf_chk () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 g_vasprintf () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_strdup_vprintf () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_strdup_printf () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: xfce4-power-manager crashed with SIGSEGV in vfprintf()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #1037455, so 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. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[kadi (cppege430-email-9ei9nyjpw)]

I experience the same crash problem. I have upgraded to Quantel from Precise.

The crash is related to the notification. If i switch off "Show notifications to notify about the battery state" in xfce4-power-manager-settings then power-manager doesnt crash.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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