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Bug 449243 - crash in About GNOME: viewing about-gnome from...
crash in About GNOME: viewing about-gnome from...
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Product: gnome-desktop
Classification: Core
Component: gnome-about
2.18.x
Other All
: High critical
: ---
Assigned To: Desktop Maintainers
Desktop Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-06-19 19:15 UTC by pjkonweb
Modified: 2007-06-20 20:32 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.17/2.18



Description pjkonweb 2007-06-19 19:15:39 UTC
Version: 2.18.2

What were you doing when the application crashed?
viewing about-gnome from places menu 


Distribution: Debian lenny/sid
Gnome Release: 2.18.2 2007-05-28 (Debian)
BugBuddy Version: 2.18.1

System: Linux 2.6.21-pjk1 #1 SMP Thu May 31 22:24:14 EDT 2007 i686
X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Vendor Release: 10300000
Selinux: No
Accessibility: Disabled
GTK+ Theme: Clearlooks
Icon Theme: vibrant

Memory status: size: 27475968 vsize: 27475968 resident: 15228928 share: 9469952 rss: 15228928 rss_rlim: 4294967295
CPU usage: start_time: 1182280450 rtime: 42 utime: 32 stime: 10 cutime:0 cstime: 0 timeout: 0 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 100

Backtrace was generated from '/usr/bin/gnome-about'

(no debugging symbols found)
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1".
(no debugging symbols found)
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1226213712 (LWP 4282)]
(no debugging symbols found)
0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()

Thread 1 (Thread -1226213712 (LWP 4282))

  • #0 __kernel_vsyscall
  • #1 __waitpid_nocancel
    from /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
  • #2 ??
    from /usr/lib/libgnomeui-2.so.0
  • #3 ??
  • #4 ??
  • #5 ??
  • #0 __kernel_vsyscall


----------- .xsession-errors ---------------------
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
Window manager warning: Log level 16: Failed to set text from markup due to error parsing markup: Error on line 1: Entity did not end with a semicolon; most likely you used an ampersand character with
Window manager warning: Log level 16: Failed to set text from markup due to error parsing markup: Error on line 1: Entity did not end with a semicolon; most likely you used an ampersand character with
***MEMORY-WARNING***: gnome-terminal[4173]: GSlice: g_thread_init() must be called before all other GLib functions; memory corruption due to late invocation of g_thread_init() has been detected; this 
(gnome-terminal:3581): Vte-WARNING **: No handler for control sequence `device-control-string' defined.
Window manager warning: Treating resize request of legacy application 0x20008e7 (xine: /med) as a fullscreen request
Window manager warning: Treating resize request of legacy application 0x2001248 (xine: /med) as a fullscreen request
Window manager warning: Treating resize request of legacy application 0x2001908 (xine: /med) as a fullscreen request
(gnome-about:4282): Pango-WARNING **: shape engine failure, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Tahoma Bold 0'
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Comment 1 Vincent Untz 2007-06-19 21:35:34 UTC
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug.
Unfortunately, that stack trace is missing some elements that will help a lot to solve the problem, so it will be hard for the developers to fix that crash. Can you get us a stack trace with debugging symbols? Please see http://live.gnome.org/GettingTraces for more information on how to do so and reopen this bug or report a new one. Thanks in advance!
Comment 2 pjkonweb 2007-06-20 13:53:51 UTC
Yes,I am using Tahoma Font too.I have attached the strace output at :http://pastebin.ca/578994
below is the terminal trace:
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prakash@jaguar:~$ strace -o gnome-about.txt /usr/bin/gnome-about
umovestr: Input/output error

(gnome-about:3543): Pango-WARNING **: shape engine failure, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Tahoma Bold 0'
ptrace: Operation not permitted.
/home/prakash/3543: No such file or directory.
No stack.
***
the strace output is attached at http://pastebin.ca/578994
                                                   thanks,
                                                Prakash Jose Kokkattu
Comment 3 pjkonweb 2007-06-20 14:02:58 UTC
hello,
I tried gdb for stack trace.below is the output.
***********
prakash@jaguar:~$ gdb /usr/bin/gnome-about
GNU gdb 6.6-debian
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
(no debugging symbols found)
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1".
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/gnome-about 
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[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1225898320 (LWP 3605)]
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---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
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---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
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---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
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(gnome-about:3605): Pango-WARNING **: shape engine failure, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Tahoma Bold 0'

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1225898320 (LWP 3605)]
0xb7de6430 in pthread_mutex_lock () from /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
(gdb) thread apply all bt

Thread 1 (Thread -1225898320 (LWP 3605))

  • #0 pthread_mutex_lock
    from /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
  • #1 ??
    from /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2
  • #2 ??
  • #3 ??
    from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
  • #4 ??
  • #5 ??
  • #6 ??
  • #7 ??
  • #8 ??
  • #9 ??
    from /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2
  • #10 ??
  • #11 ??
  • #12 ??

Comment 4 Vincent Untz 2007-06-20 20:32:47 UTC
Thanks, it's likely bug 431990.