Bug 432094 – crash in About GNOME: clicked on "About Gnome"...

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Bug 432094 - crash in About GNOME: clicked on "About Gnome"...


Summary:	crash in About GNOME: clicked on "About Gnome"...


Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 432093

Product:	gnome-desktop
Classification:	Core
Component:	gnome-about
Version:	2.18.x
Hardware:	Other All

Importance:	High critical
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Desktop Maintainers
QA Contact:	Desktop Maintainers

URL:
Whiteboard:

Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2007-04-21 23:20 UTC by bbarbour
Modified:	2007-04-22 01:36 UTC

See Also:
GNOME target:	---
GNOME version:	2.17/2.18

Description bbarbour 2007-04-21 23:20:27 UTC

Version: 2.18.0

What were you doing when the application crashed?
clicked on "About Gnome" in system dropdown menu


Distribution: Fedora release 6.93 (Rawhide)
Gnome Release: 2.18.0 2007-03-23 (Red Hat, Inc)
BugBuddy Version: 2.18.0

System: Linux 2.6.20-1.3094.fc7 #1 SMP Thu Apr 19 11:34:12 EDT 2007 i686
X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Vendor Release: 10299905
Selinux: Enforcing
Accessibility: Disabled
GTK+ Theme: Clearlooks
Icon Theme: Fedora

Memory status: size: 42827776 vsize: 42827776 resident: 13336576 share: 8691712 rss: 13336576 rss_rlim: 4294967295
CPU usage: start_time: 1177197019 rtime: 90 utime: 73 stime: 17 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/libthread_db.so.1".
(no debugging symbols found)
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1209022016 (LWP 3912)]
(no debugging symbols found)
0x004cc402 in __kernel_vsyscall ()

+ Trace 129604

Thread 1 (Thread -1209022016 (LWP 3912))

#0 __kernel_vsyscall
#1 __waitpid_nocancel
from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#2 ??
from /usr/lib/libgnomeui-2.so.0
#3 <signal handler called>
#4 pthread_mutex_lock
from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#5 ??
from /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2
#6 ??
from /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2
#7 ??
from /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2
#8 cairo_scaled_font_text_extents
from /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2
#9 ??
from /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0
#10 ??
from /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0
#11 ??
from /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0
#12 pango_font_get_glyph_extents
from /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0
#13 ??
from /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0
#14 ??
from /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0
#15 pango_shape
from /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0
#16 ??
from /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0
#17 ??
from /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0
#18 ??
from /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0
#19 ??
from /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0
#20 pango_layout_get_pixel_extents
from /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0
#21 pango_layout_get_pixel_size
from /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0
#22 ??
from /usr/lib/libgnomecanvas-2.so.0
#23 g_object_set_valist
from /lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#24 gnome_canvas_item_set_valist
from /usr/lib/libgnomecanvas-2.so.0
#25 gnome_canvas_item_set
from /usr/lib/libgnomecanvas-2.so.0
#26 _start
#0 __kernel_vsyscall



----------- .xsession-errors (7 sec old) ---------------------
DCOP: unregister 'anonymous-2949'
kdeinit: PID 2949 terminated.
kdeinit: PID 2970 terminated.
kdeinit: PID 2971 terminated.
kdeinit: PID 2972 terminated.
kdeinit: PID 2968 terminated.
KPopupMenu: title() called with non-title id 0.
QObject::connect: No such slot MSNContact::slotWebcamReceive()
QObject::connect:  (sender name:   'msnWebcamReceive')
QObject::connect:  (receiver name: 'unnamed')
QObject::connect: No such slot MSNContact::slotWebcamSend()
QObject::connect:  (sender name:   'msnWebcamSend')
QObject::connect:  (receiver name: 'unnamed')
(gnome-about:3912): Pango-WARNING **: shape engine failure, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'DejaVu LGC Sans Bold Not-Rotated 0'
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Comment 1 Pedro Villavicencio 2007-04-22 01:36:57 UTC

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 432093 ***