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unity-panel-service crashed with SIGSEGV in g_dbus_proxy_call()

Bug #1029919 reported by Nice Testhouse on 2012-07-27

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1033267: unity-panel-service crashed with SIGSEGV in g_dbus_proxy_call_internal(). Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Unity	New	Undecided	Unassigned
	unity (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Release ubuntu 12.10 quantal (Nvidia) with ppa:SIL2100

Firefox browser window opened with a blank unusble translucent window. See screenshot.

Just before the above happened, unity had recovered from a crash due to a python script as reported here https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1029915

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: unity-services 6.0.0-0ubuntu5~test1 [origin: LP-PPA-sil2100-quantal]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-6.6-generic 3.5.0
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-6-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.4-0ubuntu5
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
CrashCounter: 1
CrashDB: unity
Date: Fri Jul 27 13:47:35 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/unity/unity-panel-service
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha i386 (20120713.1)
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/unity/unity-panel-service
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SegvAnalysis:
Segfault happened at: 0xb70ea470: mov 0x0(%ebp),%edx
PC (0xb70ea470) ok
source "0x0(%ebp)" (0xaaaaaaaa) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
destination "%edx" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: unity
StacktraceTop:
?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
g_dbus_proxy_call () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdbusmenu-glib.so.4
?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: unity-panel-service crashed with SIGSEGV in g_dbus_proxy_call()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

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Nice Testhouse (testhouse) wrote on 2012-07-27:

UnusableTranslucentBrowser 2012-07-27 13:47:58.png Edit (1.1 MiB, image/png)
Dependencies.txt Edit (2.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GconfCompiz.txt Edit (49.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XsessionErrors.txt Edit (5.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

security vulnerability:	no → yes
visibility:	private → public

Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar) on 2012-07-27

security vulnerability:	yes → no
visibility:	public → private

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote on 2012-07-30:

the problem that you seeing in the screenshot is bug 932189

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2012-07-30: This bug is a duplicate

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 #1029502, 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.