Bug#481191: gnome-settings-daemon under vnc segfaults

[Julian Hall]

Josselin Mouette wrote:
> We’re not completely doomed yet; this may be an optimization issue
> (compiler bug or wrong assumption from the code).
>
> Could you try with nostrip but without noopt? This way you should still
> have a debuggable code that shows the problem, and you can send the
> backtrace.
>
> Thanks,
>   

OK, that did it.  Backtrace:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x2b98ce1ad590 (LWP 7068)]
set_touchpad_enabled (state=<value optimized out>) at 
gsd-mouse-manager.c:420
420                     if (strcmp (devicelist[i].name, "Synaptics 
Touchpad") == 0) {
(gdb) bt
#0  set_touchpad_enabled (state=<value optimized out>) at 
gsd-mouse-manager.c:420
#1  0x00002aaaabb24d05 in gsd_mouse_manager_start (manager=0x658430, 
error=<value optimized out>) at gsd-mouse-manager.c:836
#2  0x00002aaaabb23b07 in impl_activate (plugin=0x658400) at 
gsd-mouse-plugin.c:78
#3  0x0000000000405042 in gnome_settings_plugin_info_activate 
(info=0x64e1d0) at gnome-settings-plugin-info.c:506
#4  0x0000000000403c65 in maybe_activate_plugin (info=0x64e1d0, 
user_data=<value optimized out>) at gnome-settings-manager.c:93
#5  0x00002b98c81a0f5d in g_slist_foreach () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#6  0x0000000000403e42 in gnome_settings_manager_start 
(manager=0x640d40, error=<value optimized out>) at 
gnome-settings-manager.c:271
#7  0x0000000000403a9b in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffe5d8ba18) at main.c:260