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gnome-control-center package

[power]: gnome-control-center crashes if indicator-power is not installed in Unity

Bug #1195481 reported by Jeremy Bícha
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This bug affects 13 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
One Hundred Papercuts
Fix Released
High
Papercuts Ninjas
gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Iain Lane
Saucy
Fix Released
High
Iain Lane

Bug Description

[ Description ]

gnome-control-center's power panel crashes when indicator-power isn't installed.

[ Test case ]

1. Uninstall indicator-power
2. Open System Settings and click Power
3. System Settings crashes

At 3 it shouldn't crash. If you have indicator-power installed, you should see the option to configure whether it shows.

[ Regression potential ]

This adds some new code to check if the GSettings schema is installed, since
that's a reliable way to check for indicator-power's presence, and is what the
code modifies. It also makes the option appear in DEs other than Unity.

There's a chance that the GSettings schema-detection work could be wrong. It
also wouldn't hurt to check non-Unity environments such as a gnome-panel
session.

[ Original report ]

I see that unity recommends indicator-power; let's make it a depends instead.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu29
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.9.0-7.15-generic 3.9.7
Uname: Linux 3.9.0-7-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: ufs qnx4 hfsplus hfs minix ntfs msdos jfs xfs reiserfs ext2 overlayfs nls_utf8 isofs pci_stub vboxpci vboxnetadp vboxnetflt vboxdrv parport_pc ppdev rfcomm bnep dm_crypt intel_powerclamp coretemp kvm_intel kvm joydev crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel arc4 cryptd ath9k dm_multipath scsi_dh ath9k_common ath9k_hw uvcvideo videobuf2_vmalloc videobuf2_memops videobuf2_core ath snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_codec_conexant mac80211 snd_hda_intel videodev ath3k btusb snd_hda_codec bluetooth cfg80211 snd_hwdep snd_pcm psmouse microcode toshiba_acpi toshiba_bluetooth serio_raw sparse_keymap snd_page_alloc snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event snd_rawmidi snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_timer snd mei soundcore lpc_ich mac_hid lp parport btrfs xor zlib_deflate raid6_pq libcrc32c dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log ums_realtek usb_storage i915 i2c_algo_bit drm_kms_helper drm atl1c ahci libahci wmi video
ApportVersion: 2.10.2-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jun 27 17:42:04 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-06-14 (13 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Alpha amd64 (20130613)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: gnome-control-center
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_object_new_valist () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_object_new () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/control-center-1/panels/libpower.so
Title: [power]: gnome-control-center crashed with signal 5 in g_object_new_valist()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sbuild sudo
usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
 activity-log-manager-control-center 0.9.5-0ubuntu1
 deja-dup 27.3.1-0ubuntu1
 gnome-control-center-signon 0.1.7~+13.10.20130625-0ubuntu1
 gnome-control-center-unity 1.3daily13.06.14.1-0ubuntu1
 indicator-datetime 12.10.3daily13.06.19-0ubuntu1

See original description

Related branches

lp:~jbicha/unity/depend-on-indicator-power
Rejected for merging into lp:unity
Brandon Schaefer (community): Disapprove
Diff: 36 lines (+6/-1)
2 files modified
debian/changelog (+5/-0)
debian/control (+1/-1)
lp:~ubuntu-desktop/gnome-control-center/ubuntu
lp:ubuntu/saucy-proposed/gnome-control-center
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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote :

StacktraceTop:
 g_settings_set_property (object=<optimized out>, prop_id=<optimized out>, value=<optimized out>, pspec=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.37.3/./gio/gsettings.c:492
 object_set_property (nqueue=0x7f9e84039660, value=<optimized out>, pspec=0x7f9e8412b850, object=0x7f9e84055ba0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.37.3/./gobject/gobject.c:1363
 g_object_new_internal (class=class@entry=0x7f9e8412ecd0, params=params@entry=0x7fff9cce3c50, n_params=1) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.37.3/./gobject/gobject.c:1776
 g_object_new_valist (object_type=object_type@entry=140318797394272, first_property_name=first_property_name@entry=0x7f9e811b19d3 "schema-id", var_args=var_args@entry=0x7fff9cce3da8) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.37.3/./gobject/gobject.c:1999
 g_object_new (object_type=140318797394272, first_property_name=first_property_name@entry=0x7f9e811b19d3 "schema-id") at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.37.3/./gobject/gobject.c:1556

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : Stacktrace.txt
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : ThreadStacktrace.txt
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: removed: need-amd64-retrace
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
information type: Private → Public
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Anca Emanuel (anca-emanuel) wrote :

sudo apt-get install indicator-power
[sudo] password for emanuel:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
indicator-power is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

I do not think the bug 1215474 is a duplicate of this. I used the language switch yesterday before upgrade.

Apport retracing service (apport)
tags: added: bugpattern-needed
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Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e) wrote :

Since this bug renders essential features or functionality of the application or dependencies broken or ineffective, it has a priority of 'High'.

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
importance: Medium → High
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status: New → Confirmed
assignee: nobody → Paper Cuts Ninja (papercuts-ninja)
Iain Lane (laney)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Invalid
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Iain Lane (laney)
Iain Lane (laney)
description: updated
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Adam Conrad (adconrad) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello Jeremy, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnome-control-center into saucy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/1:3.6.3-0ubuntu45 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

tags: added: verification-needed
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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote : [gnome-control-center/saucy] possible regression found

As a part of the Stable Release Updates quality process a search for Launchpad bug reports using the version of gnome-control-center from saucy-proposed was performed and bug 1245199 was found. Please investigate this bug report to ensure that a regression will not be created by this SRU. In the event that this is not a regression remove the "verification-failed" tag from this bug report and tag 1245199 "bot-stop-nagging". Thanks!

tags: added: verification-failed
Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)
Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
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Iain Lane (laney) wrote :

That's nothing to do with this change

tags: removed: verification-failed
Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)
no longer affects: unity (Ubuntu)
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Testing the proposed version, it does fix the issue

tags: added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed
Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)
Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status: Triaged → In Progress
Brian Murray (brian-murray)
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu Saucy):
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → In Progress
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote : Update Released

The verification of this Stable Release Update has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions.

Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu Saucy):
assignee: nobody → Iain Lane (laney)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-control-center - 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu45

---------------
gnome-control-center (1:3.6.3-0ubuntu45) saucy; urgency=low

  [ Iain Lane ]
  * debian/patches/97_unity_power_ui.patch: Don't crash if indicator-power
    isn't installed. When deciding whether to display/not display the
    indicator-power options, use the presence of indicator-power instead of
    just checking if Unity is the DE in use. (LP: #1195481)
  * debian/control.in: Build-Depend on glib >= 2.31.2 for
    g_settings_schema_source_ref.

  [ William Hua ]
  * debian/patches/input-sources-text-entry.patch:
    - support modifier-only input-source switching (lp: #1218322)
 -- Iain Lane <email address hidden> Fri, 18 Oct 2013 12:47:01 +0100

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu Saucy):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Launchpad Janitor (janitor)
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)
Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
importance: Low → High
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Since https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/ffc5f8523b653f5864bfae1e20b19c59114016c9 is still happening in jammy and kinetic I will redirect this to a new bug 1989312.

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