[Mir] Unity8 crashes when an app tries to exit itself (unity8 crashed with SIGABRT in raise())

Bug #1235209 reported by Omer Akram
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Mir
Confirmed
High
Unassigned
Unity 8
Confirmed
High
Unassigned
unity8 (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

If an app have a 'quite' button i.e. the One that closes the app, tapping that while running Mir crashes Unity8 and one have to restart the phone to get back to a working state.

1. open system settings
2. go to Background panel
3. try to change the wallpaper so that content picker appear
4. tap 'Cancel'

What happens:
Unity crashes.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: unity8 7.81.3+13.10.20130927.3-0ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 3.4.0-3-mako armv7l
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu1
Architecture: armhf
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Fri Oct 4 11:51:41 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/unity8
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-03 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu Saucy Salamander (development branch) - armhf (20131003.2)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: unity8
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: unity8
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libc.so.6
 raise () from /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libc.so.6
 __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler() () from /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libstdc++.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libstdc++.so.6
Title: unity8 crashed with SIGABRT in raise()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm autopilot cdrom dialout dip nopasswdlogin plugdev sudo tty video

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :
Changed in unity8:
importance: Undecided → High
summary: - unity8 crashed with SIGABRT in raise()
+ [Mir] Unity8 crashes when an app tries to exit itself (unity8 crashed
+ with SIGABRT in raise())
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : This bug is a duplicate

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #1234737, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

information type: Private → Public
tags: removed: need-armhf-retrace
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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

Confirmed from the Duplicate bug.

Changed in mir:
importance: Undecided → High
Changed in unity8:
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in mir:
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Alexandros Frantzis (afrantzis) wrote :

This is the same as bug #1234609. In both cases the app tries to close itself (pressing either cancel or pick).

Omer Akram (om26er)
tags: removed: avengers qa-touch
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