Bug 436673 – crash in About GNOME:

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Bug 436673 - crash in About GNOME:


Summary:	crash in 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:	2007-05-07 19:08 UTC by Ameya Gore
Modified:	2007-05-08 01:18 UTC

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

Description Ameya Gore 2007-05-07 19:08:43 UTC

Version: 2.18.0

What were you doing when the application crashed?



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

System: Linux 2.6.21-1.3116.fc7 #1 SMP Thu Apr 26 10:36:44 EDT 2007 i686
X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Vendor Release: 10300000
Selinux: No
Accessibility: Disabled
GTK+ Theme: VistaBut
Icon Theme: Neu

Memory status: size: 44355584 vsize: 44355584 resident: 13864960 share: 8470528 rss: 13864960 rss_rlim: 4294967295
CPU usage: start_time: 1178564716 rtime: 63 utime: 48 stime: 15 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 -1209112128 (LWP 2388)]
(no debugging symbols found)
0x0063d402 in __kernel_vsyscall ()

+ Trace 132942

Thread 1 (Thread -1209112128 (LWP 2388))

#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 ---------------------
  File "/usr/bin/puplet", line 368, in main
    p.run()
  File "/usr/bin/puplet", line 355, in run
    self._getOnDbus()
  File "/usr/bin/puplet", line 229, in _getOnDbus
    "/Updatesd")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/_dbus.py", line 410, in get_object
    follow_name_owner_changes=follow_name_owner_changes)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 230, in __init__
    _dbus_bindings.UInt32(0))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 169, in __call__
    reply_message = self._connection.send_message_with_reply_and_block(message, timeout)
dbus.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name edu.duke.linux.yum was not provided by any .service files
(gnome-about:2388): Pango-WARNING **: shape engine failure, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'DejaVu Sans Bold Not-Rotated 0'
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Comment 1 Pedro Villavicencio 2007-05-08 01:18:42 UTC

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug.
This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but the maintainers need more information to fix the bug. Could you please answer the questions in the other report in order to help the developers?


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