GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 363194
crash in Time and Date: starting time-admin
Last modified: 2007-02-11 22:42:04 UTC
Every time I try to launch time-admin with the 'dropline neu' icon theme from http://art.gnome.org , time-admin crashes. It does not crash if I start it with 'gksudo time-admin' (running it as root). It does not crash when I change the icon theme to the default Human theme in Ubuntu or the etiquette icon theme from art.gnome.org Reference to previous report : http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362358 Here is the backtrace I got from bug-buddy when running time-admin (as normal user with the dropline neu icon theme) Distribution: Ubuntu 6.10 (edgy) Gnome Release: 2.16.1 2006-10-02 (Ubuntu) BugBuddy Version: 2.16.0 Memory status: size: 41263104 vsize: 0 resident: 41263104 share: 0 rss: 11243520 rss_rlim: 0 CPU usage: start_time: 1161171399 rtime: 0 utime: 22 stime: 0 cutime:19 cstime: 0 timeout: 3 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 0 Backtrace was generated from '/usr/bin/time-admin' Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1". [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread -1225520880 (LWP 8555)] 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
+ Trace 77010
Thread 1 (Thread -1225520880 (LWP 8555))
Carlos, please note that the original stacktrace looks like the dreaded general "crash on starting" bug. Possibly some of those duplicates with low info actually may be this issue, too. Confirming, nice trace, unique.
Oops, crasher -- missed to correctly set Priority and Severity. Also, bumping Priority, see the comments above.
*** Bug 366176 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Somehow the issue seems to have been resolved by itself. I am now able to open time-admin as normal user (with the same theme settings as before) and now the crash does not occur any more. Maybe an update some days ago fixed it along with a different issue, but since I had been using 'gksudo time-admin', I did not notice that it had been fixed. I am leaving the bug open in case the administrators still want to inspect the bug.
I changed my icon theme from human to Gnome and then started time-admin, it launched fine. I noticed that while in the human icon theme, I got this error when starting from a terminal: "** (bug-buddy:23876): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for Open Folder" Using "gksudo time-admin" while in human icon theme I got this from the terminal: (time-admin:23808): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed. (bug-buddy:23819): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed. ** (bug-buddy:23819): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for Open Folder I think it's safe to say this is a theme/icon related problem.
The cause of this bug was fixed on 2006-09-23, the warnings shown in comment #5 aren't related to this bug, and BTW, the g-s-t tools shouldn't need gksudo at all anymore :) closing as FIXED, thanks for the bug report
still happening on edgy with 2.15.5, reopening Backtrace of the crash: 82 e_map_add_point (tzmap->map, NULL, tzl->longitude, tzl->latitude, (gdb) bt
+ Trace 81182
(gdb) p tzmap $1 = (ETzMap *) 0x0 It happens when using the Nuvola theme (trying https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-tools/+bug/69566), though it doesn't look like the issue is theme specific according to the backtrace
From valgrind: ==16024== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s) ==16024== at 0x804FF08: e_tz_map_new (tz-map.c:79) ==16024== by 0x804DDD7: init_timezone (time-tool.c:329) ==16024== by 0x804EED5: gst_time_tool_constructor (time-tool.c:448) ==16024== by 0x48ADBDA: g_object_newv (gobject.c:937) ==16024== by 0x48AE7E8: g_object_new_valist (gobject.c:1022) ==16024== by 0x48AE8EF: g_object_new (gobject.c:795) ==16024== by 0x804E095: gst_time_tool_new (time-tool.c:546) ==16024== by 0x8050BBE: main (main.c:272)
ouch, thanks seb for the valgrind tip, I think the potential crasher is gone both in HEAD and gnome-2-16
Created attachment 75995 [details] Crash report Hmm... it started happening again all of a sudden. My system is up to date with Ubuntu edgy repositories.
Unsurprising, given that the fix isn't still packaged in Edgy. please wait for the next g-s-t release (being released now). closing as FIXED again...
*** Bug 360297 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***