Bug 440385 – crash in About GNOME: Viewing the "about gnome...

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Bug 440385 - crash in About GNOME: Viewing the "about gnome...


Summary:	crash in About GNOME: Viewing the "about gnome...


Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 431990

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:	2007-05-22 08:31 UTC by matt16
Modified:	2007-05-22 09:19 UTC

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

Description matt16 2007-05-22 08:31:22 UTC

Version: 2.18.1

What were you doing when the application crashed?
Viewing the "about gnome" credits


Distribution: Debian lenny/sid
Gnome Release: 2.18.1 2007-04-25 (Debian)
BugBuddy Version: 2.18.1

System: Linux 2.6.21-1-amd64 #1 SMP Fri May 18 23:28:21 CEST 2007 x86_64
X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Vendor Release: 10300000
Selinux: No
Accessibility: Disabled
GTK+ Theme: Glossy
Icon Theme: gnome

Memory status: size: 143269888 vsize: 143269888 resident: 17387520 share: 9945088 rss: 17387520 rss_rlim: 18446744073709551615
CPU usage: start_time: 1179822606 rtime: 30 utime: 24 stime: 6 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 47306652537744 (LWP 12366)]
(no debugging symbols found)
0x00002b066983fc65 in waitpid () from /lib/libpthread.so.0

+ Trace 135480

Thread 1 (Thread 47306652537744 (LWP 12366))

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



----------- .xsession-errors ---------------------
** Message: plugin_get_value 1 (1)
** Message: plugin_get_value 2 (2)
** Message: plugin_get_value 1 (1)
** Message: plugin_get_value 2 (2)
** Message: plugin_get_value 1 (1)
** Message: plugin_get_value 2 (2)
(gnome-about:12366): Pango-WARNING **: shape engine failure, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'DejaVu Sans Bold Not-Rotated 0'
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Comment 1 Vincent Untz 2007-05-22 09:19:25 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 431990 ***