Bug#675763: gnome-settings-daemon: gnome-setting-daemon segfaults in libmouse.so

[Michael Biebl]

On 03.06.2012 19:22, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 
> On 03.06.2012 18:26, Georg Colle wrote:
>> Am Sonntag, den 03.06.2012, 12:13 +0200 schrieb Michael Biebl:
>>> On 03.06.2012 10:34, Georg wrote:
>>>> When Gnome has started, dmesg output ends with the additional two lines:
>>>> [  110.872839] gnome-settings-[2387]: segfault at 40 ip afb156e0 sp bf8c1b8c error 4 in libmouse.so[afb13000+9000]
>>>> [  111.909861] gnome-settings-[2439]: segfault at 40 ip afb4c6e0 sp bfbc994c error 4 in libmouse.so[afb4a000+9000]
>>>
>>> could you get a backtrace [1] of the crash, please.
> 
>> ** (gnome-settings-daemon:23260): WARNING **: Name taken or bus went
>> away - shutting down
> 
> This means, gnome-settings-daemon is already running, and it just exits.
> So the debug log doesn't show anything interesting.

As just killing gnome-settings-daemon in a running session is probably a
bit tricky, you can either start a non-GNOME session, where
gnome-settings-daemon is not started, or you set ulimit -c unlimited
[1]. This way gnome-settings-daemon should dump a core file when it
segfaults.

You can then get the backtrace by running
gdb --core /path/to/core /usr/bin/gnome-settings-daemon

[1] A way to set ulimit before g-s-d is started, is to edit
/etc/security/limits.conf and add
* soft core unlimited




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