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gnome-session package

[apport] gnome-session crashed with SIGSEGV

Bug #104049 reported by Mark Shuttleworth on 2007-04-07

4

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-session (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-session

Happy to provide further info for debugging.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Apr 7 11:01:25 2007
Disassembly: 0xb7634f0b:
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-session
Package: gnome-session 2.18.0-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: x-session-manager
ProcCwd: /home/mark
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/zsh
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-session
Stacktrace: #0 0xb7634f0b in ?? ()
StacktraceTop: ?? ()
ThreadStacktrace:

Uname: Linux peregrine 2.6.20-14-generic #2 SMP Mon Apr 2 20:37:49 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin plugdev scanner video

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Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) wrote on 2007-04-07:

#1

Dependencies.txt Edit (8.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (22.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (668 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Registers.txt Edit (498 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2007-04-09: Symbolic stack trace

#2

Stacktrace.txt (retraced) Edit (23 bytes, text/plain)

StacktraceTop:?? ()

Daniel Holbach (dholbach) on 2007-04-13

Changed in gnome-session:
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
importance:	Undecided → Medium

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote on 2007-04-13:

#3

Unfortunately the backtrace does not help much. Is the issue reproducible?

Changed in gnome-session:
status:	Unconfirmed → Needs Info

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2007-04-13:

#4

Having a valgrind log (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Valgrind) could be useful also, it might depend of what is registred there

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Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) wrote on 2007-04-13:

#5

old gnome session Edit (3.4 KiB, application/x-trash)

Moving my ~/.gnome2/session file to session.bak fixed the problem. I have attached the old session file.

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2007-04-25

Changed in gnome-session:
status:	Needs Info → Unconfirmed

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zdzichu (zdzichu-gmail) wrote on 2007-05-06:

#6

I'm experiencing similar crash on every login. Every second login suceeds, because dialog box (,,Your session lasted shorter than 10 seconds'') appears. Clicking OK on that dialog terminates session.

gnome-session run by Valgrind DO NOT crash. How to capture core from first crash?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2007-06-28:

#7

That might be http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446558 which has been fixed upstream. Do you have enough icons to reach the border of the splash image?

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zdzichu (zdzichu-gmail) wrote on 2007-06-28:

#8

Indeed, I'm using very narrow splash. I don't know how many icons I have, they do not appear before crash (or they appear too fast; it's 2GHz Core Duo).
I reverted to standard splash and it didn't crash this time.

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zdzichu (zdzichu-gmail) wrote on 2007-07-02:

#9

Three more logins with wide splash and no crash. It seems to be that upstream bug.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2007-07-02:

#10

That's fixed in gutsy with this upload:

gnome-session (2.19.4-0ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low
.
   * New upstream version:
     Session Manager
     - Use g_timeout_add_seconds() when possible
     - Improve a bit "wrong clock" check when the user has reconfigured his
       clock
     - Fix crash when icons on the splash screen needs to be relayout-ed
     - Fix compilation issue on Solaris
     Session Properties Dialog
     - Fix a crash when the comment for a .desktop file is not defined and a
       startup program is disabled (LP: #120343)
     Misc
     - Require glib 2.13.0
   * debian/control.in:
     - Build-Depends on libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.13.0)

Changed in gnome-session:
status:	New → Fix Released

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zdzichu (zdzichu-gmail) wrote on 2007-07-02:

#11

Gutsy won;t be released for another few months. Could we get a backport?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2007-07-02:

#12

that might be a backport candidate, it's low priority for now though since it happens mainly when using a custom splash screen not wide enough to contain the icons and not in the default configuration. We will give it some testing on gutsy first and then consider the backport

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