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

[Georg Colle]

Am Sonntag, den 03.06.2012, 19:32 +0200 schrieb 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
> 
> 
> 
> 


Hello everybody!
Here is the output of "gdb
--core /path/to/core /usr/bin/gnome-settings-daemon":
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Reading symbols from /usr/bin/gnome-settings-daemon...done.
[New LWP 18181]
[New LWP 18192]
[New LWP 18187]
[New LWP 18193]
[New LWP 18230]
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library
"/lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1".
Core was generated by
`/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0  0xafb886b0 in gdk_device_manager_list_devices at plt ()
from /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/libmouse.so
(gdb) bt
#0  0xafb886b0 in gdk_device_manager_list_devices at plt ()
from /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/libmouse.so
#1  0xafb8be56 in gsd_mouse_manager_idle_cb (manager=0x9771538) at
gsd-mouse-manager.c:1120
#2  0xb6fd30f0 in ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#3  0xb6fd5633 in g_main_context_dispatch ()
from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#4  0xb6fd59d0 in ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#5  0xb6fd5e2b in g_main_loop_run ()
from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#6  0xb73c376d in gtk_main () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0
#7  0x0804bd81 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfff8f44) at main.c:456
(gdb) quit
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You can download the complete backtrace file from
http://www.colle-online.de/core (ca. 36MB).
Greetings, Georg
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