Bug#694340: libgconf2-4: libgconf built with the dbus backend requires dbus-glib to be initialized with threading

Chow Loong Jin hyperair at debian.org
Sun Nov 25 17:36:38 UTC 2012


Package: libgconf2-4
Version: 3.2.5-0ubuntu4
Severity: critical
Tags: patch
Justification: breaks unrelated software

Dear Maintainer,

Originally from https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/+bug/1048341,

Banshee, which uses libgconf through the gconf# bindings, and does not touch
libdbus-glib directly (dbus# is a reimplementation of libdbus, and does not
actually use libdbus(-glib)), is crashing in libgconf with the following stack
trace:

#0  0x00007f609b5cc18d in read () at ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S:82
#1  0x000000000049853b in read (__nbytes=1024, __buf=0x7f607a4e4730, __fd=<optimized out>) at /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/unistd.h:45
#2  mono_handle_native_sigsegv (signal=signal at entry=11, ctx=ctx at entry=0x7f607a4e4c40) at mini-exceptions.c:2208
#3  0x00000000004e8daf in mono_arch_handle_altstack_exception (sigctx=sigctx at entry=0x7f607a4e4c40, fault_addr=<optimized out>, stack_ovf=stack_ovf at entry=0) at exceptions-amd64.c:953
#4  0x000000000041fe87 in mono_sigsegv_signal_handler (_dummy=11, info=0x7f607a4e4d70, context=0x7f607a4e4c40) at mini.c:5909
#5  <signal handler called>
#6  0x00007f608c9b7a57 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3
#7  0x00007f608c9bc011 in dbus_message_get_reply_serial () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3
#8  0x00007f608c9b037e in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3
#9  0x00007f608c9c7e5b in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3
#10 0x00007f608c9c8864 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3
#11 0x00007f608c9c8ec6 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3
#12 0x00007f608c9c7bfd in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3
#13 0x00007f608c9b2904 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3
#14 0x00007f608c9b3cad in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3
[1 Debug 17:34:10.781]#15 0x00007f608c9b30ac in dbus_connection_send_with_reply_and_block () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3
#16 0x00007f608ce3028a in gconf_engine_get_fuller () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgconf-2.so.4
#17 0x00007f608ce305be in gconf_engine_get_entry () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgconf-2.so.4
#18 0x00007f608ce2a86e in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgconf-2.so.4
#19 0x00007f608ce2cf8d in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgconf-2.so.4


I would like to propose the patch that I have applied onto the the Ubuntu gconf
package (attached here) in order to fix this issue. It ensures that libgconf
initializes DBus-Glib with threads when it is initialized.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers quantal-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'quantal-updates'), (500, 'quantal-security'), (500, 'quantal'), (400, 'quantal-proposed'), (100, 'quantal-backports')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.6.6-hyper1 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libgconf2-4 depends on:
ii  gconf-service  3.2.5-0ubuntu4
ii  libgconf-2-4   3.2.5-0ubuntu4

libgconf2-4 recommends no packages.

libgconf2-4 suggests no packages.

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