gnome-terminal crashed with SIGSEGV in g_object_notify()

Bug #864813 reported by pascal germroth
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This bug affects 6 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GTK+
Expired
Critical
gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Medium
Unassigned
vte (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

zsh-beta was about to do tab-completion on a path

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-terminal 3.0.1-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic-pae 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 2 21:21:02 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcCmdline: gnome-terminal
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xb7014aca <g_object_notify+42>: cmpl $0x50,(%eax)
 PC (0xb7014aca) ok
 source "$0x50" ok
 destination "(%eax)" (0x00000008) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
StacktraceTop:
 g_object_notify () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 gtk_range_accessible_value_changed () from /usr/lib/libgtk-3.so.0
 g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 signal_emit_unlocked_R () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: gnome-terminal crashed with SIGSEGV in g_object_notify()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-26 (6 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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pascal germroth (pascal-ensieve) wrote :
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote :

StacktraceTop:
 g_object_notify (object=0x866e350, property_name=0xb7684722 "accessible-value") at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.30.0/./gobject/gobject.c:1003
 gtk_range_accessible_value_changed (adjustment=0x85ea658, data=0x866e350) at /build/buildd/gtk+3.0-3.2.0/./gtk/a11y/gtkrangeaccessible.c:38
 g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID (closure=0x884f168, return_value=0x0, n_param_values=1, param_values=0x8653938, invocation_hint=0xbf975280, marshal_data=0x0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.30.0/./gobject/gmarshal.c:85
 g_closure_invoke (closure=0x884f168, return_value=0x0, n_param_values=1, param_values=0x8653938, invocation_hint=0xbf975280) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.30.0/./gobject/gclosure.c:774
 signal_emit_unlocked_R (node=0x856f8c0, detail=0, instance=0x85ea658, emission_return=0x0, instance_and_params=0x8653938) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.30.0/./gobject/gsignal.c:3272

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : Stacktrace.txt
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : ThreadStacktrace.txt
Changed in gnome-terminal (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: removed: need-i386-retrace
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
visibility: private → public
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in gnome-terminal (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57) 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=661521

description: updated
Changed in gnome-terminal:
importance: Unknown → Critical
status: Unknown → New
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Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57) wrote :

> --- Comment #1 from Christian Persch <email address hidden> 2011-10-12 14:49:18 UTC ---
> You need to use vte 0.30 with gtk 3.2, while ubuntu only has 0.28.
> If the same were to happen with 0.30, it would be either a bug in the gtk a11y impl, or in vte's.

Can we backport a patch from 0.30 as a SRU?
http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=193993

affects: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) → vte (Ubuntu)
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Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57) wrote :
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
Changed in vte (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57) wrote :

@Jeremy: I'll open gtk task for now because this crash still exists (see today's bug 872693).

affects: gnome-terminal → gtk
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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
tags: added: quantal
Changed in gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in gtk:
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in gtk:
status: Confirmed → Expired
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