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gnome-control-center package

gnome-settings-daemon crashed with signal 5 in gnome_settings_daemon_new()

Bug #177990 reported by James Deibele on 2007-12-21

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #178326: gnome-settings-daemon crashed with signal 5 in gnome_settings_daemon_new(). Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)	New	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

I'd love to help here but on reboot the system is telling me there was a problem.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Dec 21 14:27:10 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gnome-control-center/gnome-settings-daemon
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.21.2-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-settings-daemon
ProcCwd: /home/jamesd
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
Stacktrace:
#0 0xb776b5ec in g_logv () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#1 0xb776b869 in g_log () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#2 0x08058ad0 in gnome_settings_daemon_new ()
#3 0x08055933 in main ()
StacktraceTop:
gnome_settings_daemon_new ()
main ()
Title: gnome-settings-daemon crashed with signal 5 in gnome_settings_daemon_new()
Uname: Linux jamesd-work9200 2.6.24-2-generic #1 SMP Thu Dec 20 17:36:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev sambashare scanner video

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James Deibele (jdeibele) wrote on 2007-12-21:

#1

Dependencies.txt Edit (5.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Disassembly.txt Edit (746 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (15.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (691 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Registers.txt Edit (471 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (216 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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James Deibele (jdeibele) wrote on 2007-12-21:

#2

One thing: I started with failsafe gnome. But I don't know if the bug report is from this session or the previous session.

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2007-12-21: Symbolic stack trace

#3

Stacktrace.txt (retraced) Edit (598 bytes, text/plain)

StacktraceTop:g_rand_set_seed_array () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
g_rand_free () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
gnome_settings_daemon_new () at gnome-settings-daemon.c:287
main (argc=135024088, argv=0x80c2488) at factory.c:38

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2007-12-21: Symbolic threaded stack trace

#4

ThreadStacktrace.txt (retraced) Edit (625 bytes, text/plain)

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2007-12-21: Stack trace with source code

#5

StacktraceSource.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain)

Changed in gnome-control-center:
importance:	Undecided → Medium

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James Deibele (jdeibele) wrote on 2008-01-08:

#6

re-occured today after updating all packages with apt-get

Dropping from "custom" special effects to "none" seems to have helped.

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Kjell Braden (afflux) wrote on 2008-01-12:

#7

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 178326, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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