Comment 3 for bug 1268027

vadi@gooseberry:~$ nvidia-settings

** (nvidia-settings:23883): WARNING **: PRIME: Failed to execute child
process "/usr/bin/prime-supported" (No such file or directory)
** Message: PRIME: is it supported? no
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
vadi@gooseberry:~$ gdb nvidia-settings
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Reading symbols from /usr/bin/nvidia-settings...(no debugging symbols
found)...done.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /usr/bin/nvidia-settings
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
[New Thread 0x7ffff078f700 (LWP 23902)]
[New Thread 0x7fffeef1d700 (LWP 23903)]
[New Thread 0x7fffed578700 (LWP 23904)]

** (nvidia-settings:23899): WARNING **: PRIME: Failed to execute child
process "/usr/bin/prime-supported" (No such file or directory)
** Message: PRIME: is it supported? no

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007fffe49d88a6 in ?? ()
   from
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-xpm.so
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00007fffe49d88a6 in ?? ()
   from
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-xpm.so
#1 0x00007ffff78ba892 in XCloseDisplay ()
   from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
#2 0x000000000041203d in ?? ()
#3 0x000000000040c696 in ?? ()
#4 0x00007ffff5b5776d in __libc_start_main (main=0x40c560, argc=1,
    ubp_av=0x7fffffffe098, init=<optimised out>, fini=<optimised out>,
    rtld_fini=<optimised out>, stack_end=0x7fffffffe088) at libc-start.c:226
#5 0x000000000040c7ad in ?? ()
#6 0x00007fffffffe088 in ?? ()
#7 0x000000000000001c in ?? ()
#8 0x0000000000000001 in ?? ()
#9 0x00007fffffffe375 in ?? ()
#10 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) q
A debugging session is active.

Inferior 1 [process 23899] will be killed.

Quit anyway? (y or n) y
vadi@gooseberry:~$

On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 8:16 PM, Alberto Milone <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Can you attach the error that you get when running nvidia-settings from
> the command line, please? Also, the output of gdb would be welcome.
>
> ** Changed in: nvidia-settings (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Alberto Milone (albertomilone)
>
> ** Changed in: nvidia-settings (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
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