GLib

[Natty] New glib2.0_2.27.90-0ubuntu1 crashes gnome-panels

Bug #698131 reported by Harry
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GLib
Fix Released
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glib2.0 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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Michael Terry

Bug Description

After the recent upgrade of glib2.0_2.27.5-0ubuntu1 to the newest version 2.27.90-0ubuntu1 all the Gnome2 panels crash each time any launcher applet is clicked. Panels do come back after a second or so.
This crashing also removes the metacity compositing each time.

This can be reproduced every time.

I have Nvidia 285GTX graphics card and I am using stable Nvidia-current_260.19.29 drivers.
This is Natty 64-bit architecture.

Workaround: downgrade the glib2.0 version 2.27.90 to 2.27.5.

Tags: regression
Harry (harry33)
tags: added: regression
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Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) wrote :

I see this also. Nvidia on amd64.

Changed in glib2.0 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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ScislaC (scislac) wrote :

Just confirming for a non-64bit, non-nvidia environment.

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Anton Gladky (gladky-anton) wrote :

Same crash for me. Dell Mini10v.

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Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) wrote :

FYI, There's a stack trace in #698139

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Kees Cook (kees) wrote :

Confirmed that rolling back glib2.0 worked for me:

    sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-0=2.27.5-0ubuntu1 libglib2.0-bin=2.27.5-0ubuntu1 libglib2.0-data=2.27.5-0ubuntu1 libglib2.0-dev=2.27.5-0ubuntu1 libglib2.0-doc=2.27.5-0ubuntu1

Michael Terry (mterry)
Changed in glib2.0 (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Michael Terry (mterry)
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package glib2.0 - 2.27.90-0ubuntu2

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glib2.0 (2.27.90-0ubuntu2) natty; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/72_fix_crash_on_empty_desktop_filename.patch:
    - Patch from upstream to fix a crasher. LP: #698131
 -- Michael Terry <email address hidden> Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:16:00 -0500

Changed in glib2.0 (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in glib:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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