gnome-contacts-search-provider crashed with signal 5 in g_variant_new_va()

[Gerhard Bogner]

[Impact]
 * gnome-contacts-search-provider regularly crashes.
 * This is caused by the bytestring_type.patch which is no longer required since vala 0.17.3 (see BGO: #679423)

[Testcase]
From gnome-shell overview
- Start with a short search that brings up a list of contacts results
- Wait a second and then add a letter to the search so there are no results
- gnome-contacts-search-provider will crash.

[Regression Potential]
None, the patch was originally added to fix a FTBS, it is no longer required.

== Original Report ==

ProblemType: CrashDistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: gnome-contacts 3.5.4.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-8.8-generic 3.5.0
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.4-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Aug 5 20:37:47 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gnome-contacts/gnome-contacts-search-providerInstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/gnome-contacts/gnome-contacts-search-providerSignal: 5SourcePackage: gnome-contacts
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_variant_new_va () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_variant_new () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: gnome-contacts-search-provider crashed with signal 5 in g_variant_new_va()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-07-13 (23 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare users
XsessionErrors:
 gnome-session[2148]: WARNING: Failed to start app: Unable to start application: Failed to execute child process "gnome-power-manager" (No such file or directory)
 (process:2512): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 g_variant_valist_new_nnp (str=0x7ffff864e758, ptr=0x0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.33.6/./glib/gvariant.c:4051
 g_variant_valist_new_leaf (app=0x7ffff864e788, str=0x7ffff864e758) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.33.6/./glib/gvariant.c:4207
 g_variant_valist_new (str=str@entry=0x7ffff864e758, app=app@entry=0x7ffff864e788) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.33.6/./glib/gvariant.c:4389
 g_variant_valist_new (str=str@entry=0x7ffff864e758, app=app@entry=0x7ffff864e788) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.33.6/./glib/gvariant.c:4441
 g_variant_new_va (format_string=0x422e9a "ay)", endptr=0x0, app=0x7ffff864e788) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.33.6/./glib/gvariant.c:4598

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Osik (stefan-tollkuehn)]

This also happens under 13.04 x64.

[Tim Lunn (darkxst)]

This is caused by the type change introduced by, bytestring_type.patch

From the changelog it seems that patch was added as a workaround for an introspection bug, hopefully that might have been fixed in the latest g-i.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-contacts - 3.8.2-0ubuntu2

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gnome-contacts (3.8.2-0ubuntu2) saucy; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/bytestring_type.patch: Dropped, no longer needed
    (LP: #1033262)
 -- Tim Lunn <email address hidden> Fri, 07 Jun 2013 09:54:14 +1000

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Uploaded to the Raring queue. The crash popups for this bug have been pretty annoying so I'm glad to see this is being fixed!

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

Hello Gerhard, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnome-contacts into raring-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-contacts/3.6.2-0ubuntu2.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Tim Lunn (darkxst)]

Tested with updated package from -proposed, can no longer reproduce the crash using test case.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

The verification of this Stable Release Update has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-contacts - 3.6.2-0ubuntu2.1

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gnome-contacts (3.6.2-0ubuntu2.1) raring; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/bytestring_type.patch: Dropped, no longer needed and
    causes the contacts search provider for GNOME Shell to crash (LP: #1033262)
 -- Tim Lunn <email address hidden> Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:03:13 +1000