GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 689036
Crash when changing luminosity
Last modified: 2012-11-30 09:01:03 UTC
When I press the "dim light" key, I get the following error message, and crash: (gnome-settings-daemon:6256): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid uninstantiatable type `(null)' in cast to `GsdMediaKeysManager' Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. Without a stack trace from the crash it's very hard to determine what caused it. Can you get us a stack trace? Please see http://live.gnome.org/GettingTraces for more information on how to do so. Thanks in advance!
Here is the trace:
+ Trace 231225
The same one with debugging symbols, please?
(In reply to comment #3) > The same one with debugging symbols, please? Is it any better?
+ Trace 231226
It's been fixed in Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/1082856
Did you get this backtrace on an Ubuntu system?
(In reply to comment #6) > Did you get this backtrace on an Ubuntu system? Yes, on Ubuntu Quantal, but with GNOME packages from the "GNOME3 Team" PPA (https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3).
... I forgot to say that I had to rebuild the src package from the PPA to add debugging symbols.
The code that crashed has been very heavily customised (500 line patch) by Ubuntu and bears no resemblance to the code in GNOME. In other words, it's a bug in Ubuntu's patch.