gnome-display-properties crashed with SIGSEGV in strcmp()

Bug #340386 reported by Sandro Mani
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-desktop
Fix Released
Critical
gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

I switched the screen, the confirm dialog appeared and at the same time gnome-display-properties crashed.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-display-properties
Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.25.92-0ubuntu3
ProcCmdline: gnome-display-properties
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
Stacktrace:
 #0 0x00007f191fc956a2 in strcmp () from /lib/libc.so.6
 #1 0x00007f1921697009 in gnome_rr_screen_get_output_by_name ()
    from /usr/lib/libgnome-desktop-2.so.11
 #2 0x0000000000407d4b in _start ()
StacktraceTop:
 strcmp () from /lib/libc.so.6
 gnome_rr_screen_get_output_by_name ()
 _start ()
Title: gnome-display-properties crashed with SIGSEGV in strcmp()
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-8-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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Sandro Mani (sandromani) wrote :
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : Symbolic stack trace

StacktraceTop:strcmp () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/strcmp.S:30
gnome_rr_screen_get_output_by_name (
get_current_modes (app=<value optimized out>)
rebuild_rate_combo (app=0xd62780)
rebuild_gui (app=0xd62780) at xrandr-capplet.c:686

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : Symbolic threaded stack trace
Changed in gnome-control-center:
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574865

Changed in gnome-control-center:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: New → Triaged
Changed in gnome-desktop:
status: Unknown → New
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the bug has been fixed upstream now

Changed in gnome-desktop:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-control-center - 1:2.26.0-0ubuntu1

---------------
gnome-control-center (1:2.26.0-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * New upstream release: (LP: #344244)
    + About me:
     - Fix warning when selecting a finger to enroll in the combo box
       (Bastien Nocera)
    + Default applications:
     - Fix mnemonic conflicts (Jens Granseuer)
    + Display:
     - Make the strings of the rotation dialog appear translated (Gabor Kelemen)
     - Fix crash when refreshing RANDR configuration (Federico Mena Quintero)
       (LP: #340386)
    + Font viewer:
     - Stop the font thumbnailer eating all the CPU (Bastien Nocera) (LP: #339417)
    + Keybindings:
     - Fix mnemonics conflict on the custom shortcut window (Jens Granseuer)
    + Typing break:
     - Revert string freeze breaker (Thomas H.P. Andersen)
    + Updated translations
  * Refresh debian/patches/99_autoreconf.patch

 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:34:39 +0100

Changed in gnome-control-center:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Sandro Mani (sandromani) wrote :

Shouldn't this bug be markes as fixed released also against gnome-desktop? Or remote watch removed?

Changed in gnome-desktop:
importance: Unknown → Undecided
importance: Undecided → Unknown
status: New → Unknown
Changed in gnome-desktop:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
Changed in gnome-desktop:
importance: Unknown → Critical
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