unity-tweak-tool crashed with signal 5 in g_settings_get_value()

StacktraceTop:
 g_settings_schema_get_value (schema=schema@entry=0x121c8f0, key=key@entry=0x14533e0 "show-desktop") at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.39.4/./gio/gsettingsschema.c:950
 g_settings_schema_key_init (key=key@entry=0x7fff56fb9b60, schema=0x121c8f0, name=name@entry=0x14533e0 "show-desktop") at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.39.4/./gio/gsettingsschema.c:1147
 g_settings_get_value (settings=0x121c8d0, key=0x14533e0 "show-desktop") at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.39.4/./gio/gsettings.c:1094
 g_settings_get_boolean (settings=<optimized out>, key=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.39.4/./gio/gsettings.c:1907
 ffi_call_unix64 () at ../src/x86/unix64.S:76

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Looks like this is fixed in this upstream commit:

https://github.com/freyja-dev/unity-tweak-tool/commit/21c84d2e3a8ffaae5d526fbbdb084c3476c365b4

This bug was fixed in the package unity-tweak-tool - 0.0.6ubuntu1

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unity-tweak-tool (0.0.6ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/lp1281132.patch: Backport upstream commit
    that fixes crash (LP: #1281132). This patch is applied
    directly since this is a native package, but a copy was
    kept in debian/ to be clear about what has been applied.
  * debian/rules: Some minor style tweaks.
  * debian/control:
   - Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.5
   - Build depend on python3-all to fix FTBFS (LP: #1282274).
 -- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio <email address hidden> Thu, 20 Feb 2014 23:41:09 -0500

The latest version in repositories (0.0.6ubuntu1) does not show up in the dash (doesn't seem to include any executable file).

~# dpkg -L unity-tweak-tool
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man1
/usr/share/man/man1/unity-tweak-tool.1.gz
/usr/share/apport
/usr/share/apport/package-hooks
/usr/share/apport/package-hooks/source_unity-tweak-tool.py
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/unity-tweak-tool
/usr/share/doc/unity-tweak-tool/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/unity-tweak-tool/copyright

Anders,

Do you have a PPA for unity-tweak-tool installed? That doesn't look like the version in the official archive. See:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/all/unity-tweak-tool/filelist

Could you run `apt-cache policy unity-tweak-tool` ?

This is the result:

unity-tweak-tool:
  Installerad: 0.0.6ubuntu1
  Kandidat: 0.0.6ubuntu1
  Versionstabell:
 *** 0.0.6ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

However, after purging unity-tweak-tool (and also clearing the apt cache), and then redownloading/reinstalling - it seems to work again.

'apt-cache policy unity-tweak-tool' still shows the same as above after this, but now it works as expected.

Thank you!

Gennaro
hello, no, do not use ppa for unity-tweak. Proceed as you told me.
Thanks

Il 21/02/2014 17:01, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio ha scritto:
> Anders,
>
> Do you have a PPA for unity-tweak-tool installed? That doesn't look like
> the version in the official archive. See:
>
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/all/unity-tweak-tool/filelist
>
> Could you run `apt-cache policy unity-tweak-tool` ?
>

Greetings,
Well, I finally got this working!

sudo apt-get purge unity-tweak-tool
remove ppa if installed in repository
delete the contents of "var/cache/apt/archives/"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
install unity-tweak-tool from Software Center

That happened for one day, where the version in PPA did not bundle the full app. it has been corrected now.

It may take a while for the PPA to get updated, but in a few hours, you can safely switch to PPA.