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Dropbox crash on Ubuntu MATE Remix

Bug #1374030 reported by Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Iain Lane
gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Iain Lane

Bug Description

I'm getting "Attempt to unlock mutex that was not locked" and a segfault when running Ubuntu MATE Remix 14.10.

It seems this bug is reported elsewhere in a number of other packages and is a result of a change in GLib ≥ 2.41.

I am told this patch can fix it.

https://github.com/GNOME/gtk/commit/79c3ff3c4ed74bbcc820dac2d5180fa4d48d55ec

Bug 1346299 & bug 1344386 are related (similar issue, different app).

Note that as this is dropbox, we cannot easily fix there as it's proprietary.

See original description
Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey)
description: updated
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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nadrimajstor (ipejic) wrote :

Workaround based on https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=758619#63

sudo patch --backup /usr/bin/dropbox <<'EOF'
--- /usr/bin/dropbox 2014-09-25 22:15:34.099930720 +0200
+++ /usr/bin/dropbox 2014-09-25 21:58:06.015930720 +0200
@@ -285,6 +285,7 @@
         import webbrowser

         gtk.gdk.threads_init()
+ gtk.gdk.threads_enter()

         load_serialized_images()

EOF

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nadrimajstor (ipejic) wrote :

Ignore previous one (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+3.0/+bug/1374030/comments/2)...
That is python and whitespace matters... And someone eat some whitespace during copy&paste :|

sudo patch --backup /usr/bin/dropbox <<'EOF'
--- /usr/bin/dropbox2014-09-25 22:15:34.099930720 +0200
+++ /usr/bin/dropbox2014-09-25 21:58:06.015930720 +0200
@@ -285,6 +285,7 @@
         import webbrowser

         gtk.gdk.threads_init()
+ gtk.gdk.threads_enter()

         load_serialized_images()

EOF

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nadrimajstor (ipejic) wrote :

I give up fighting web interface... patch file DOES have correct whitespacing... Use:

sudo patch --backup /usr/bin/dropbox <dropbox_patch

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Iain Lane (laney) wrote :

The fix is in bzr now, will upload soon (waiting for one other patch)

Changed in gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
assignee: nobody → Iain Lane (laney)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gtk+3.0 - 3.12.2-0ubuntu11

---------------
gtk+3.0 (3.12.2-0ubuntu11) utopic; urgency=medium

  * 0001-threads-Do-not-release-the-GDK-lock-if-it-hasn-t-bee.patch:
    Cherry-pick from upstream to work around abort() inside GLib occuring in
    applications that do not intialise GDK for threading right. (LP: #1374030)
 -- Iain Lane <email address hidden> Fri, 03 Oct 2014 17:25:56 +0100

Changed in gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Iain Lane (laney)
Changed in gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Iain Lane (laney)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gtk+2.0 - 2.24.24-0ubuntu3

---------------
gtk+2.0 (2.24.24-0ubuntu3) utopic; urgency=medium

  * Apply patch from Adam Smith, backported from gtk+3.0, to allow windows to
    be dragged using blank spaces in the toolbar as well as the menubar. (LP:
    #1332721)
  * 0001-threads-Do-not-release-the-GDK-lock-if-it-hasn-t-bee.patch:
    Cherry-pick from upstream to work around abort() inside GLib occuring in
    applications that do not intialise GDK for threading right. (LP: #1374030)
 -- Iain Lane <email address hidden> Thu, 09 Oct 2014 12:38:20 +0100

Changed in gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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