compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in g_utf8_validate()

Bug #748031 reported by Robbie Williamson
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Unity
Fix Committed
Critical
Jason Smith
unity (Ubuntu)
Fix Committed
Critical
Jason Smith

Bug Description

Occurred when attempting to remove an application from the Unity side bar. The application was successfully removed when compiz restarted.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: libnux-0.9-0 0.9.38-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic 2.6.38
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Sat Apr 2 00:34:38 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz
ProcCmdline: compiz
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f74570fb150 <g_utf8_validate+496>: cmpb $0x0,(%rdi)
 PC (0x7f74570fb150) ok
 source "$0x0" ok
 destination "(%rdi)" (0x0000006b) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: nux
StacktraceTop:
 g_utf8_validate () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_variant_new_string () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_variant_new_strv () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_settings_set_strv () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
 FavoriteStoreGSettings::RemoveFavorite(char const*) () from /usr/lib/compiz/libunityshell.so
Title: compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in g_utf8_validate()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2010-06-03 (302 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

Revision history for this message
Robbie Williamson (robbiew) wrote :
visibility: private → public
Jason Smith (jassmith)
affects: nux (Ubuntu) → unity (Ubuntu)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Jason Smith (jassmith)
importance: Undecided → Critical
status: New → Fix Committed
Changed in unity:
assignee: nobody → Jason Smith (jassmith)
importance: Undecided → Critical
milestone: none → 3.8.4
status: New → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : This bug is a duplicate

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #736792, 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.

tags: removed: need-amd64-retrace
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