Bug#656808: gnome-settings-daemon: segmentation fault after some use

Arthur de Jong adejong at debian.org
Sat Jan 21 20:59:57 UTC 2012


Package: gnome-settings-daemon
Version: 3.2.2-2
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software

Occasionally gnome-settings-daemon crashes and the friendly by oh so
useless "Oh no! Something has gone wrong." message in Gnome pops up and
all the things I'm working on are unavailable.

Crashes from my logs:

Jan 20 14:37:22 sorbet kernel: [14770.849397] gnome-settings-[2656]: segfault at 8 ip 00000000f7005d5e sp 00000000fff505e0 error 4 in libglib-2.0.so.0.3000.2[f6f7d000+fa000]
Jan 20 15:07:19 sorbet kernel: [16567.521009] gnome-settings-[29507]: segfault at 8 ip 00000000f7051d5e sp 00000000fffac020 error 4 in libglib-2.0.so.0.3000.2[f6fc9000+fa000]
Jan 21 13:15:14 sorbet kernel: [ 2030.375351] gnome-settings-[4764]: segfault at 8 ip 00000000f7052d5e sp 00000000ff8bfe60 error 4 in libglib-2.0.so.0.3000.2[f6fca000+fa000]
Jan 21 21:20:48 sorbet kernel: [31163.588260] gnome-settings-[5880]: segfault at 8 ip 00000000f707bd5e sp 00000000ffcec900 error 4 in libglib-2.0.so.0.3000.2[f6ff3000+fa000]

I cannot correlate the crashes to something I am doing but last time I
was typing in Geany. There does not appear to be any useful information
in ~/.xsession-errors. Is there any useful way I can provide more
debugging info?

Do you know what package is responsible for the BSOD equivalent? I just
lost quite some work over this and only offering logout without the
possibility to allow me te save my work is really annoying, especially
if all applications are otherwise working fine (judging by the
gnome-shell activities overview mode).

Thanks (sorry about the tone of this, I'm a bit angry about the BSOD
issue).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.10.0-3
ii  dpkg                                         1.16.1.2
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    3.2.0-2
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.2.0-2
ii  libc6                                        2.13-24
ii  libcairo-gobject2                            1.10.2-6.2
ii  libcairo2                                    1.10.2-6.2
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                           0.28-3
ii  libcanberra0                                 0.28-3
ii  libcolord1                                   0.1.15-3
ii  libcomerr2                                   1.42-1
ii  libcups2                                     1.5.0-15
ii  libdbus-1-3                                  1.4.16-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                             0.98-1
ii  libfontconfig1                               2.8.0-3
ii  libfreetype6                                 2.4.8-1
ii  libgconf2-4                                  3.2.3-1
ii  libgcrypt11                                  1.5.0-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.24.0-2
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.30.2-5
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-2                         3.2.1-3
ii  libgnome2-common                             2.32.1-2
ii  libgnomekbd7                                 3.2.0-1
ii  libgnutls26                                  2.12.16-1
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2                             1.10+dfsg~beta1-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.2.3-1
ii  libgudev-1.0-0                               175-3
ii  libk5crypto3                                 1.10+dfsg~beta1-2
ii  libkrb5-3                                    1.10+dfsg~beta1-2
ii  liblcms2-2                                   2.2+git20110628-2
ii  libnotify4                                   0.7.4-1
ii  libpackagekit-glib2-14                       0.7.2-2
ii  libpango1.0-0                                1.29.4-2
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0                        0.104-1
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0                      1.1-2
ii  libpulse0                                    1.1-2
ii  libsqlite3-0                                 3.7.9-2
ii  libupower-glib1                              0.9.15-1
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.4.4-4
ii  libxfixes3                                   1:5.0-4
ii  libxi6                                       2:1.4.5-1
ii  libxklavier16                                5.1-3
ii  nautilus-data                                3.2.1-2
ii  zlib1g                                       1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon recommends:
ii  hwdata      0.233-1
ii  pulseaudio  1.1-2

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon suggests:
ii  gnome-screensaver            3.2.0-2+b1
ii  metacity [x-window-manager]  1:2.34.1-2
ii  mutter [x-window-manager]    3.2.1-2
ii  x11-xserver-utils            7.6+3

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