Comment 16 for bug 959874

It was fixed for me. (But I didn't change the tag)

Pedro Nariyoshi

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:17 AM, funicorn <email address hidden> wrote:

> No, It affects my Acer laptop too. Gnome-settings-daemon crashes when
> pressing Fn+left/right arrows, which in my case is the XFree86 key to
> control LCD brightness. However Fn+up/down arrows which is for volume
> control works normally. I'm working on Ubuntu 12.10, amd64.
>
> By the way, why do I see a lot of bugs marked as "Fix Released" which
> actually are still there ?
>
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> duplicate bug report (967894).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/959874
>
> Title:
> gnome-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in
> ubuntu_osd_do_notification()
>
> Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” source package in Precise:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> I started seeing this problem after updating today (2012-03-19). g-s-d
> crashes every time I try to use the hotkeys to adjust the keyboard
> backlight brightness. I see lines like the following in syslog:
>
> Mar 19 20:55:17 ubuntu-mba kernel: [ 250.180733] gnome-settings-[4019]:
> segfault at f0 ip 00007f9dc774235b sp 00007fff0cedffe0 error 4 in
> libmedia-keys.so[7f9dc7735000+25000]
> Mar 19 20:55:17 ubuntu-mba gnome-session[3722]: WARNING: App
> 'gnome-settings-daemon.desktop' respawning too quickly
> Mar 19 20:55:17 ubuntu-mba gnome-session[3722]: CRITICAL: We failed, but
> the fail whale is dead. Sorry....
>
> The machine is a MacBook Air 4,1.
>
> ProblemType: Crash
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
> Package: gnome-settings-daemon 3.3.92-0ubuntu1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-19.30-generic 3.2.11
> Uname: Linux 3.2.0-19-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
> Architecture: amd64
> CrashCounter: 1
> Date: Mon Mar 19 20:50:21 2012
> EcryptfsInUse: Yes
> ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64+mac
> (20111208)
> ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
> ProcEnviron:
> PATH=(custom, user)
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SegvAnalysis:
> Segfault happened at: 0x7f19aa61235b: cmpq $0x0,(%rdi)
> PC (0x7f19aa61235b) ok
> source "$0x0" ok
> destination "(%rdi)" (0x000000f0) not located in a known VMA region
> (needed writable region)!
> SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
> Signal: 11
> SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon
> StacktraceTop:
> ?? () from /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/libmedia-keys.so
> ?? () from /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/libmedia-keys.so
> g_simple_async_result_complete () from
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
> ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
> g_simple_async_result_complete () from
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
> Title: gnome-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in
> g_simple_async_result_complete()
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
> UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
>
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