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gnome-control-center package

gnome-about-me crashed with SIGSEGV in e_contact_set()

Bug #414538 reported by GPXRacer
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This bug affects 36 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-control-center
Expired
Critical
gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

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ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Aug 16 22:01:11 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-about-me
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Alpha i386 (20090812.3)
Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.27.5-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: gnome-about-me
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-5.24-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x3fcf1f <e_contact_set+47>: cmp (%edx),%eax
 PC (0x003fcf1f) ok
 source "(%edx)" (0x00003000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%eax" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
StacktraceTop:
 e_contact_set () from /usr/lib/libebook-1.2.so.9
 ?? ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
 g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: gnome-about-me crashed with SIGSEGV in e_contact_set()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-5-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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GPXRacer (bikedevil) wrote :
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : Stacktrace.txt (retraced)

StacktraceTop:e_contact_set (contact=0xa12f420,
about_me_focus_out (widget=0x9f8de00, event=0xa135418,
_gtk_marshal_BOOLEAN__BOXED (closure=0xa0f9b60,
IA__g_closure_invoke (closure=0xa0f9b60,
signal_emit_unlocked_R (node=<value optimized out>,

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : ThreadStacktrace.txt (retraced)
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: removed: need-i386-retrace
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592348

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
status: New → Triaged
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Changed in gnome-control-center:
status: Unknown → Incomplete
Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)
visibility: private → public
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colo (alen-palcic-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

i solve the problem.i instaled ubuntu 9.04 and works fine.thanks!

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

May someone please give us some detailed steps in order to reproduce the issue? Thanks.

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Incomplete
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josa (johnny-sander) wrote :

The closest thing to a description I can give is that it most likely happened just as I opened About me in System Preferences. Has tried looking around in System Prefs a bunch of times after that and not had any trouble. Sorry

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Rick Spencer (rick-rickspencer3) wrote :

I opened the app, clicked around a little and closed it. It crashed on close. I didn't change any data.

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
assignee: Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) → Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
milestone: none → ubuntu-9.10
milestone: ubuntu-9.10 → none
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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote :

To reproduce:
1. Open GNOME about me
2. Click to move cursor inside a text entry
3. Close window using X button on title bar

Crashes. Doesn't crash if the "close" button is pressed.

It appears that objects are destroyed before the UI causing a focus-out event
to access invalid memory.

Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Triaged
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

There is a patch on the upstream bug now

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
assignee: Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-control-center - 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu4

---------------
gnome-control-center (1:2.28.0-0ubuntu4) karmic; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/81_upstream_change_fix_xrand_capplet_crash.patch:
    - bugzilla change to fix a crasher in the xrandr capplet
      (lp: #431953)
  * debian/patches/82_upstream_change_fix_aboutme_crash.patch:
    - bugzilla change to fix the aboutme capplet crashing on closing
      (lp: #414538)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:20:49 +0200

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Per Moller (per-moller) wrote :

Just wanted to complete my 10.04 installation with my personal info in "System, About Me" and it abended after accepting my phone number.

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Changed in gnome-control-center:
status: Incomplete → New
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Changed in gnome-control-center:
importance: Unknown → Critical
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Changed in gnome-control-center:
status: New → Expired
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