unity-greeter crashed with SIGSEGV in g_slice_alloc()

Bug #853760 reported by Paul Ladouceur
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This bug affects 32 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
unity-greeter (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
High
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Bug Description

Always got the error when starting my session

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity-greeter 0.0.8-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Sep 18 20:50:12 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/unity-greeter
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110901)
ProcCmdline: unity-greeter
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/false
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f6eeb10d215 <g_slice_alloc+293>: mov (%rbx),%rdx
 PC (0x7f6eeb10d215) ok
 source "(%rbx)" (0x000000f6) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rdx" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: unity-greeter
StacktraceTop:
 g_slice_alloc () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_slice_alloc0 () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 gtk_widget_set_parent () from /usr/lib/libgtk-3.so.0
Title: unity-greeter crashed with SIGSEGV in g_slice_alloc()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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Paul Ladouceur (paul-ladouceur) wrote :
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote :

StacktraceTop:
 thread_memory_magazine1_alloc (ix=<optimized out>, tmem=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.92/./glib/gslice.c:797
 g_slice_alloc (mem_size=48) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.92/./glib/gslice.c:833
 g_slice_alloc0 (mem_size=48) at /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/string3.h:85
 g_signal_emit_valist (instance=0x1e1f170, signal_id=13, detail=0, var_args=0x7fff52916438) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.92/./gobject/gsignal.c:2967
 g_signal_emit (instance=<optimized out>, signal_id=<optimized out>, detail=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.92/./gobject/gsignal.c:3060

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : Stacktrace.txt
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : ThreadStacktrace.txt
Changed in unity-greeter (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: removed: need-amd64-retrace
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in unity-greeter (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

bug #850521 seems similar

visibility: private → public
Changed in unity-greeter (Ubuntu):
importance: Medium → High
assignee: nobody → Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
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Henrique Rocha (hmrocha-fc) wrote :

I don't even use Unity. I use Gnome Shell, so I don't know why I'm getting this error.

Changed in unity-greeter (Ubuntu):
assignee: Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) → nobody
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