Bug#645506: gnome-settings-daemon segfaults on startup (libdbus-1.so.3.5.8)

[Jonathan Dray]

Package: gnome-settings-daemon
Version: 3.0.3-2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

After an upgrade to gnome3, my desktop is unusable.
When I log in my system with gdm3 the desktop background is loaded and the
mouse cursor moves but all other actions are disabled.

I switched to console mode with ctrl+alt+f1 key combinaison, and found a
segfault thrown by gnome-settings-daemon.
Here is the error message : gnome-settings-[4239]: segfault at 7f0a977484f0 ip
00007f0a977484f0 sp 00007fffe714e978 error 14 in
libdbus-1.so.3.5.8[7f0a97dbb000+43000]
Can you please give me the steps to follow to provide more detailed debug
information ?

I tired to recompile the package without the ld flag -Wl,-z,defs as described
in #629351 bug report, but it didn't solve the issue.

For now I am only able to use gnome in fallback mode.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (995, 'unstable'), (90, 'testing'), (89, 'testing'), (88, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1+medusa.2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.7.5-3              
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    3.0.1-1              
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.2.0-2              
ii  libc6                                        2.13-21              
ii  libcairo-gobject2                            1.10.2-6.1           
ii  libcairo2                                    1.10.2-6.1           
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                           0.28-2               
ii  libcanberra0                                 0.28-2               
ii  libcomerr2                                   1.42~WIP-2011-10-09-1
ii  libcups2                                     1.5.0-8              
ii  libdbus-1-3                                  1.4.16-1             
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                             0.98-1               
ii  libfontconfig1                               2.8.0-3              
ii  libfreetype6                                 2.4.6-2              
ii  libgconf2-4                                  2.32.4-1             
ii  libgcrypt11                                  1.5.0-3              
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.24.0-1             
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.28.8-1             
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-0                         3.0.2-2              
ii  libgnome2-common                             2.32.1-2             
ii  libgnomekbd7                                 3.2.0-1              
ii  libgnutls26                                  2.12.11-1            
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2                             1.9.1+dfsg-3         
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.0.12-2             
ii  libgudev-1.0-0                               172-1                
ii  libice6                                      2:1.0.7-2            
ii  libk5crypto3                                 1.9.1+dfsg-3         
ii  libkrb5-3                                    1.9.1+dfsg-3         
ii  libnotify4                                   0.7.4-1              
ii  libpackagekit-glib2-14                       0.6.18-1+b1          
ii  libpango1.0-0                                1.29.4-1             
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0                        0.102-1              
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0                      1.0-4                
ii  libpulse0                                    1.0-4                
ii  libsm6                                       2:1.2.0-2            
ii  libsqlite3-0                                 3.7.8-1              
ii  libstartup-notification0                     0.12-1               
ii  libupower-glib1                              0.9.14-1             
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.4.4-2            
ii  libxext6                                     2:1.3.0-3            
ii  libxi6                                       2:1.4.3-3            
ii  libxklavier16                                5.1-2                
ii  nautilus-data                                3.0.2-4              
ii  zlib1g                                       1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3     

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon recommends:
ii  pulseaudio  1.0-4

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon suggests:
ii  gnome-screensaver            3.0.1-1   
ii  metacity [x-window-manager]  1:2.34.1-1
ii  mutter [x-window-manager]    3.0.2.1-3 
ii  twm [x-window-manager]       1:1.0.6-1 
ii  x11-xserver-utils            7.6+3     

-- no debconf information