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gnome-control-center package

gnome-appearance-properties crashed with SIGSEGV

Bug #144128 reported by Juan Pablo Salazar Bertín
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This bug affects 7 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Michael Vogt

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

gnome-appearance-properties crashed after enabling desktop effects and pressing the "keep this settings" button.
It's reproducible.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Sep 22 16:44:39 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-appearance-properties
NonfreeKernelModules: cdrom
Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.20.0-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: gnome-appearance-properties
ProcCwd: /home/snifer
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
Stacktrace:
 #0 0x08058c4c in ?? ()
 #1 0x0838b3a8 in ?? ()
 #2 0x08058810 in ?? ()
 #3 0x0856d898 in ?? ()
 #4 0x00000000 in ?? ()
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
Title: gnome-appearance-properties crashed with SIGSEGV
Uname: Linux snifer-laptop 2.6.22-12-generic #1 SMP Thu Sep 20 18:51:18 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev scanner video

Tags: apport-crash
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Juan Pablo Salazar Bertín (snifer) wrote :
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : Symbolic stack trace

StacktraceTop:apply_settings (app=0x8273b38, effects_enabled=<value optimized out>) at appearance-effects.c:315
show_dialog_timeout (data=0x8558e28) at appearance-effects.c:720
g_timeout_dispatch (source=0x856e8d8, callback=0x8387860, user_data=0x8558e28)
IA__g_main_context_dispatch (context=0x809c738) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.14.1/glib/gmain.c:2061
g_main_context_iterate (context=0x809c738, block=1, dispatch=1, self=0x8078470)

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : Symbolic threaded stack trace
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : Stack trace with source code
Changed in gnome-control-center:
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

The patch below should (hopefully) fix the issue:

--- appearance-effects.c.orig 2007-09-24 15:41:26.000000000 +0200
+++ appearance-effects.c 2007-09-24 15:42:26.000000000 +0200
@@ -312,7 +312,10 @@
                      check_for_wnck_entry,
                      (gpointer) chunk);

- rows = g_array_index (chunk->numRowsArray, gint, 0);
+ if (chunk->numRowsArray == NULL)
+ rows = 1;
+ else
+ rows = g_array_index (chunk->numRowsArray, gint, 0);

     /* clean up */
     g_slist_free (idList);

Changed in gnome-control-center:
status: New → Triaged
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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

This should be fixed with the attached patch in gutsy now. Please reopen if it still happens for you.

Changed in gnome-control-center:
assignee: nobody → mvo
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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jbayone (jbayone) wrote :

how do i apply this patch?

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Thomas Templin (coastgnu) wrote :

gnome-appearance-properties crashed when choosing "customize Theme" (German: "Thema anpassen")

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Kivech (kivech-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Seems that this bug is still present in the current version (date 27-02-2008) in Ubuntu gutsy.

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Derek Harding (derek.harding) wrote :

... and in Hardy development ...

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rbmorse (rbmorse) wrote :

+1 on bug still present in Hardy development (Alpha5)

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

those +1 comments are not useful, you should open a new bug if you have a similar issue and not comment on a closed bug

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=KK= (sevkme) wrote :

update from 7.10 to 8.04, break in updateing,then go on updateing...

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bmoqimi (bmoqimi) wrote :

it just occured while i was changing themes !
ubuntu 8.10 alpha3

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