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compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in gnome_bg_load_from_preferences()

Bug #873761 reported by aj00200
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Unity
Invalid
High
Gord Allott
Unity 5.4.0 "Brass Monkey"
gnome-desktop
Fix Released
Medium
gnome-desktop3 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Martin Pitt

Bug Description

This error happened on my first start into 11.10

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity 4.22.0-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 13 17:01:41 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcCmdline: compiz
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f84cec4e733 <gnome_bg_load_from_preferences+211>: cmpb $0x0,(%rax)
 PC (0x7f84cec4e733) ok
 source "$0x0" ok
 destination "(%rax)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: unity
StacktraceTop:
 gnome_bg_load_from_preferences () from /usr/lib/libgnome-desktop-3.so.2
 unity::BGHash::BGHash() () from /usr/lib/compiz/libunityshell.so
 UnityScreen::UnityScreen(CompScreen*) () from /usr/lib/compiz/libunityshell.so
 PluginClassHandler<UnityScreen, CompScreen, 0>::get(CompScreen*) () from /usr/lib/compiz/libunityshell.so
 CompPlugin::VTableForScreenAndWindow<UnityScreen, UnityWindow>::initScreen(CompScreen*) () from /usr/lib/compiz/libunityshell.so
Title: compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in gnome_bg_load_from_preferences()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-13 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare www-data

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aj00200 (aj00200) wrote :
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote :

StacktraceTop:
 gnome_bg_load_from_preferences (bg=0x17cfa00, settings=0x1f9d680) at gnome-bg.c:308
 unity::BGHash::BGHash (this=0x1f8b570) at /build/buildd/unity-4.22.0/plugins/unityshell/src/BGHash.cpp:69
 UnityScreen::UnityScreen (this=0x1f8b190, screen=0x1756650) at /build/buildd/unity-4.22.0/plugins/unityshell/src/unityshell.cpp:118
 getInstance (base=0x1756650) at /usr/include/compiz/core/pluginclasshandler.h:159
 PluginClassHandler<UnityScreen, CompScreen, 0>::get (base=0x1756650) at /usr/include/compiz/core/pluginclasshandler.h:196

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : Stacktrace.txt
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : ThreadStacktrace.txt
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: removed: need-amd64-retrace
Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Medium → Critical
Omer Akram (om26er)
visibility: private → public
Changed in unity:
importance: Undecided → High
assignee: nobody → Mirco Müller (macslow)
Mirco Müller (macslow)
Changed in unity:
milestone: none → 5.2.0
Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)
Changed in unity:
milestone: 5.2.0 → 5.0.0
Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)
Changed in unity:
milestone: 5.0.0 → 5.2.0
Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in unity:
status: New → Triaged
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Critical → High
assignee: nobody → Mirco Müller (macslow)
Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)
Changed in unity:
milestone: 5.2.0 → 5.4.0
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Sven Baars (sbte) wrote :

Relevant commit in gnome-desktop:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-desktop/commit/libgnome-desktop/gnome-bg.c?id=7f3e3d5200618d66ebba0654517affc012cef875

Apparently

tmp = g_settings_get_string (settings, BG_KEY_PICTURE_URI);

is NULL.

Gord Allott (gordallott)
Changed in unity:
assignee: Mirco Müller (macslow) → Gord Allott (gordallott)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
assignee: Mirco Müller (macslow) → Gord Allott (gordallott)
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Gord Allott (gordallott) wrote :

Patch sent upstream

Changed in unity:
status: Triaged → Invalid
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Invalid
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gnome-desktop:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → New
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gnome-desktop:
status: New → Fix Released
Martin Pitt (pitti)
affects: unity (Ubuntu) → gnome-desktop3 (Ubuntu)
Changed in gnome-desktop3 (Ubuntu):
assignee: Gord Allott (gordallott) → Martin Pitt (pitti)
status: Invalid → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-desktop3 - 3.3.90-0ubuntu1

---------------
gnome-desktop3 (3.3.90-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - Fix crash in gnome_bg_load_from_preferences. (LP: #873761)
  * Add 01_fix_rt_linking.patch: Add missing linking with -lrt for
    clock_gettime().
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:29:17 +0100

Changed in gnome-desktop3 (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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