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compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in g_strcmp0()

Bug #832151 reported by vassilis karamitros on 2011-08-23

This bug affects 4 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
Unity	Fix Released	Critical	Mirco Müller	Unity 4.26.0 "SRU1"
unity (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Critical	Mirco Müller
Oneiric	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

just typed unity in terminal and i had this crash.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity 4.8.2-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.13-generic 3.0.3
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Tue Aug 23 19:19:08 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20110211.1)
ProcCmdline: compiz
SegvAnalysis:
Segfault happened at: 0x4eed08: mov (%ecx),%al
PC (0x004eed08) ok
source "(%ecx)" (0x00000018) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
destination "%al" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: unity
StacktraceTop:
?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
g_strcmp0 () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
unity::PanelTray::FilterTrayCallback(_NaTray*, _NaTrayChild*, unity::PanelTray*) () from /usr/lib/compiz/libunityshell.so
?? () from /usr/lib/libunity-misc.so.4
g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__OBJECT () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in g_strcmp0()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-23 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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lp:~macslow/unity/unity.fix-832151

Merged into lp:unity at revision 1729

Gord Allott (community): Approve on 2011-10-26

lp:~macslow/unity/unity-4.0.fix-832151

Merged into lp:unity/4.0 at revision 1718

Gord Allott (community): Approve on 2011-10-26

lp:unity/4.0

lp:~ubuntu-desktop/unity/oneiric

lp:ubuntu/oneiric-proposed/unity

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vassilis karamitros (ecatodarcus) wrote on 2011-08-23:

Dependencies.txt Edit (5.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Disassembly.txt Edit (417 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (187 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (48.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (780 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Registers.txt Edit (449 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Stacktrace.txt Edit (2.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (5.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XsessionErrors.txt Edit (4.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

visibility:

private → public

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2011-08-24:

Stacktrace:
#0 0x004eed08 in tr_where (caller=0xa0a1b28) at mtrace.c:116
         len = <optimized out>
         buf = 0x18 <Address 0x18 out of bounds>
         info = <error reading variable info (Cannot access memory at address 0x215f967)>
Cannot access memory at address 0x215f987
StacktraceTop: tr_where (caller=0xa0a1b28) at mtrace.c:116

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2011-08-24: ThreadStacktrace.txt

ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (3.7 KiB, text/plain)

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
tags:	removed: need-i386-retrace

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) on 2011-09-06

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) on 2011-09-30

Changed in unity:
status:	New → Confirmed

Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) on 2011-09-30

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance:	Medium → Critical

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Tim Penhey (thumper) wrote on 2011-10-25:

Looks like FilterTrayCallback is not being unregistered.

Tim Penhey (thumper) on 2011-10-25

Changed in unity:
status:	Confirmed → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → Critical
milestone:	none → 4.26.0

Mirco Müller (macslow) on 2011-10-26

Changed in unity:
assignee:	nobody → Mirco Müller (macslow)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Mirco Müller (macslow)
Changed in unity:
status:	Triaged → In Progress

Mirco Müller (macslow) on 2011-10-26

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → In Progress

Mirco Müller (macslow) on 2011-10-26

Changed in unity:
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed

Tim Penhey (thumper) on 2011-11-04

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2011-12-08:

Bug 868868 is essentially a duplicate of this one, but with a slightly different stack. Please remember to update it too.

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Chris Halse Rogers (raof) wrote on 2012-01-13: Please test proposed package

Hello vassilis, or anyone else affected,

Accepted unity into oneiric-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Changed in unity (Ubuntu Oneiric):
status:	New → Fix Committed
tags:	added: verification-needed

Omer Akram (om26er) on 2012-01-18

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in unity:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-01-30:

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 4.28.0-0ubuntu2

---------------
unity (4.28.0-0ubuntu2) oneiric-proposed; urgency=low

  * Cherry-pick some additional fixes:
    - fix a regression where transparency is setup on the panel (LP: #830949)
    - the wrong commit causing a crash was revert. Revert the revert and
      revert the right guilty commit.

unity (4.28.0-0ubuntu1) oneiric-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - don't segfault in geis_configuration_get_value() (lp: #850623)
    - get focus on dash by pressing the super key first time after login
      (lp: #860805)
    - clicking on panel when dash is open no longer causes maximized window
      to raise (lp: #873100)
    - window management, alt-tab - After using 'show desktop' to minimise all
      windows, opening any new window also incorrectly restores all
      the minimised windows (lp: #871801)
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in
      unity::switcher::SwitcherModel::DetailSelectionWindow() (lp: #834630)
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in g_strcmp0() (lp: #832151)
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in nux::BaseWindow::GetInputWindowId()
      (when onboard is used) (lp: #865890)
    - fix multi-monitor crashers (lp: #838128, #864037, #864784, #868120)
    - Fix SIGSEGV after SwitcherController desctruction (lp: #887465)
    - Fix for "right-clicking launcher when choosing a workspace causes
      quicklists to freeze" (lp: #791810)
  * debian/patches/add_postrelease_buildfix.patch:
    - add post-release fix to build in a clean env
  * backport some additional reverts or regression fixes
-- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:54:44 +0100

Changed in unity (Ubuntu Oneiric):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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