compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in unity::launcher::SoftwareCenterLauncherIcon::OnFinished()

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio]

Crash after installing an application through the dash

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: unity 7.1.0+13.10.20130822-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-3.7-generic 3.11.0-rc6
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-3-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Aug 23 15:56:36 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-03-16 (159 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130316)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: compiz
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fadae040495 <_ZN5unity8launcher26SoftwareCenterLauncherIcon10OnFinishedEP9_GVariant+277>: cmpq $0x0,0x150(%r13)
 PC (0x7fadae040495) ok
 source "$0x0" ok
 destination "0x150(%r13)" (0x00000150) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: unity
StacktraceTop:
 unity::launcher::SoftwareCenterLauncherIcon::OnFinished(_GVariant*) () from /usr/lib/compiz/libunityshell.so
 unity::glib::DBusProxy::Impl::OnProxySignal(_GDBusProxy*, char const*, char const*, _GVariant*) () from /usr/lib/libunity-core-6.0.so.7
 ffi_closure_unix64 () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
Title: compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in unity::launcher::SoftwareCenterLauncherIcon::OnFinished()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-08-16 (7 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare sbuild sudo

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StacktraceTop:
 unity::launcher::SoftwareCenterLauncherIcon::OnFinished(_GVariant*) () from /tmp/apport_sandbox_o9WWHT/usr/lib/compiz/libunityshell.so
 unity::glib::DBusProxy::Impl::OnProxySignal (this=0x3a6c280, proxy=<optimized out>, sender_name=<optimized out>, signal_name=0x25bdc10 "Finished", parameters=0x7fadbc35f240) at /build/buildd/unity-7.1.0+13.10.20130822/UnityCore/GLibDBusProxy.cpp:267
 ffi_closure_unix64 () at ../src/x86/unix64.S:228
 ?? ()
 ?? ()

[Will Cooke (willcooke)]

As part of the big bug clear up for 16.04 LTS I am marking this bug as Wont Fix. These types of crasher are better handled by errors.ubutnu.com which can collate similar crash reports to help us identify persitent bugs rather than one-off crashes. Sorry we are not able to help with this specific issue. If you are still experiencing this crash, please re-open the bug and add the tag “desktop-bugscrub-reopen”. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BigDesktopBugScrub for more information.