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

[Michael Biebl]

On 21.01.2012 21:59, Arthur de Jong wrote:
> 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]

Could you please downgrade libglib2.0 (and related packages) to
2.30.2-4, ie. the version from testing and see if the
gnome-settings-daemon crashes go away?
What would also be helpful, if you could get a backtrace resp. core
dump. For that install the libglib2.0-0-dbg package and either run
gnome-settings-daemon in gdb, or set ulimit [1] accordingly.

I suspect that this crashes in g-s-d are due to the backported BE ffi
patches.

Michael

[1] http://www.akadia.com/services/ora_enable_core.html
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