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policykit-1-gnome package

users-admin crashes on start because of mixed GTK2 and 3 symbols

Bug #789333 reported by Mark Hull
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This bug affects 33 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
policykit-1-gnome (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Julien Lavergne
Oneiric
Fix Released
High
Julien Lavergne

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools

users-admin when clicked used to just not show up in Gnome 3 but I noticed that recently there were some updates to it so I thought I'd try it again. I've been able to work around the problem but it would be nice to have the tool available.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: gnome-system-tools 2.32.0-0ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri May 27 15:39:25 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/users-admin
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcCmdline: users-admin
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: gnome-system-tools
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
 g_option_context_parse () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 gtk_parse_args () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
 gtk_init_check () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
 gtk_init () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
Title: users-admin crashed with SIGABRT in g_option_context_parse()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-27 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

Related branches

lp:~gilir/policykit-1-gnome/fix-789333
Martin Pitt: Approve
Diff: 39 lines (+8/-2)
3 files modified
debian/changelog (+7/-0)
debian/control (+1/-1)
debian/rules (+0/-1)
lp:~ubuntu-desktop/policykit-1-gnome/ubuntu
lp:ubuntu/oneiric/policykit-1-gnome
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Mark Hull (mark-hull) wrote :
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote :

StacktraceTop:
 do_pre_parse_initialization (context=<value optimized out>, group=<value optimized out>, data=<value optimized out>, error=<value optimized out>) at /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.24.4/gtk/gtkmain.c:676
 pre_parse_hook (context=<value optimized out>, group=<value optimized out>, data=<value optimized out>, error=<value optimized out>) at /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.24.4/gtk/gtkmain.c:785
 g_option_context_parse (context=0x20d4110, argc=0x7fff2b3ab8bc, argv=0x7fff2b3ab8b0, error=0x7fff2b3ab868) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.28.6/./glib/goption.c:1737
 IA__gtk_parse_args (argc=0x7fff2b3ab8bc, argv=0x7fff2b3ab8b0) at /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.24.4/gtk/gtkmain.c:956
 IA__gtk_init_check (argc=<value optimized out>, argv=<value optimized out>) at /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.24.4/gtk/gtkmain.c:992

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Changed in gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: removed: need-amd64-retrace
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Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan) wrote : Re: users-admin crashed with SIGABRT in g_option_context_parse()

users-admin isn't part of the stock GNOME3 experience, but it should work if you still need it rather than the new users control panel.

The crash here comes from a bad packaging/build that mixes GTK2 and GTK3 symbols:
#2 0x00007f87f66eca22 in g_logv (log_domain=0x7f87f95c779b "Gtk", log_level=<value optimized out>, format=0x7f87f9659d88 "GTK+ 2.x symbols detected. Using GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported", args1=0x7fff2b3ab690) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.28.6/./glib/gmessages.c:557

So that's not a crash per se, rather a broken package.

users-admin 2.32 is supposed to use GTK2 only, while users-admin 3.0 uses GTK3 only. When you speak of GNOME3, do you mean you installed it from the PPA?

visibility: private → public
Changed in gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
summary: - users-admin crashed with SIGABRT in g_option_context_parse()
+ users-admin crashes on start because of mixed GTK2 and 3 symbols
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svenw (svenw1973-launchpad) wrote :

I did install gnome 3 from PPA (http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3/ubuntu).
gnome-system-tools is version 2.32.0-0ubuntu7. I did not find any newer package.

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Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan) wrote :

That's most likely a GNOME3 PPA bug then.

tags: added: gnome3
Apport retracing service (apport)
tags: added: bugpattern-needed
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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) wrote :

Apport retracing service has marked bug 819821, which is *not* a GNOME3 PPA bug (c.f. similar bug 814060 which is also not a GNOME3 PPA bug), as a duplicate of this bug (and removed all the useful attachments). Should I reverse that operation and manually attach a stack trace to bug 819821? Or should this bug be elevated to High (like bug 814060) and no longer considered a GNOME3 PPA bug?

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

gnome-system-tools is deprecated in gnome3.
Derivatives which still use it need to either fix it to make it work with gtk3 or use equivalent gtk3 based tools.

Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)
tags: added: iso-testing
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Julien Lavergne (gilir) wrote :

I find at least 1 package which use GTK3 and linked to this : libpolkit-gtk-1-0. policykit-1-gnome needs to provide a package of the library build against GTK2 if we want to fix it.

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Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan) wrote :

polkit-gtk shouldn't link to GTK3, but to GTK2: polkit-gtk isn't needed by GTK3 programs, since they have to use GtkLockButton to replace PolkitLockButton. Linking to GTK2 is still the upstream default actually.

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Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek) wrote :

If gnome-system-tools is deprecated in Gnome3, is the gnome2 package available? We did have this in 11.04. Is it possible to simply pin the package for 11.10?

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fnu (fnu) wrote :

Ok, if gnome-system-tools is deprecated in Gnome3, what about Xfce, means Xubuntu?

It seems they still use and need this package. I realized this bug, while using Xubuntu@Xfce (pls. see Bug #824485) ...

Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)
Changed in gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team)
Changed in gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu Oneiric):
importance: Medium → High
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

As gnome-system-tools is obsolete and replaced with accountsservice/gnome-control-center, I downgrade this to Medium. It is not a release critical bug.

Changed in gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu Oneiric):
importance: High → Medium
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Jonathan Marsden (jmarsden) wrote :

@pitti: Are you sure that all flavours of Ubuntu (Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu and Lubuntu) include the new accountsservice/gnome-control-center in Oneiric? Would their doing so noticeably increase disk or memory footprint by requiring other depedencies also be installed by default?

If in fact any of the official-but-non-default flavours of Ubuntu still need to use gnome-system-tools, then I submit that this *is* in fact a release critical bug for those flavours and should be accorded appropriately high priority and upgraded back to High.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

OK, fair enough. This got assigned to the desktop team, but please anyone feel free to grab this bug.

Changed in gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu Oneiric):
importance: Medium → High
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Julien Lavergne (gilir) wrote :

I confirm that rebuilding policykit-1-gnome with GTK2 fix the problem. Also, the rdepends are only using GTK2 also, so it's should be safe to switch to GTK2 :
gnome-time-admin
gnome-system-tools
gnome-network-admin

I'll prepare a merge proposal.

affects: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu Oneiric) → policykit-1-gnome (Ubuntu Oneiric)
Changed in policykit-1-gnome (Ubuntu Oneiric):
assignee: Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team) → Julien Lavergne (gilir)
status: Triaged → In Progress
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package policykit-1-gnome - 0.101-2ubuntu5

---------------
policykit-1-gnome (0.101-2ubuntu5) oneiric; urgency=low

  * debian/control, debian/rules: Build against GTK2, all reverse-depends still
    use GTK2 (LP: #789333).
 -- Julien Lavergne <email address hidden> Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:29:17 +0200

Changed in policykit-1-gnome (Ubuntu Oneiric):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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