Bug#667061: gnome-shell fails to load segfaulting

[Doug Kummerer]

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Romain Couturat <rcouturat at somone.fr> wrote:

> Package: gnome-shell
> Version: 3.2.2.1-3
>
>  When trying to lad gnome-shell from gdm, it crashes.
>  I followed instruction for debugging from
>  http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Debugging
>  here is the output :
>
> me at debian:~$ ~/xenv.sh
> 8126
> me at debian:~$ gdb gnome-shell
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> Reading symbols from /usr/bin/gnome-shell...(no debugging symbols
> found)...done.
> (gdb) run --replace
> Starting program: /usr/bin/gnome-shell --replace
> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
> Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
>
> ** (gnome-shell:8323): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_new_for_name: assertion
> `connection != NULL' failed
>
> ** (gnome-shell:8323): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_call: assertion
> `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x0000000000402d52 in main ()
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x0000000000402d52 in main ()
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x0000000000402d52 in main ()
> (gdb) t a a bt
>
> Thread 1 (Thread 0x7ffff7fa69a0 (LWP 8323)):
> #0  0x0000000000402d52 in main ()
> (gdb) call gjs_dumpstack ()
> $1 = 2
> (gdb)
>
>
> I am using today's latest packages from sid (the bt is from a fully up to
> date system).
> I did not restart gnome shell or my system for say, a week, so the bug may
> not come from latest package releases.
> I tried to downgrade gnome-shell and gnome-shell-common to 3.2.2.1-2 (from
> wheezy), no luck.
> Then I tried to downgrade dbus (even if that no might be a good idea) to
> actual wheezy version, same problem .
> Finally I downgraded gnome-shell (and according direct dependencies) to
> 3.2.1-8, as I am sure it was a previous working version.
> Still no luck.
> That's making me thinking that the bug might not come from gnome-shell
> package itself.
>
> Not accessing the computer right now, I will post more information
> regarding this bug shortly.
>
>
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