Bug 443875 – crash in About GNOME: running "about gnome"

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Bug 443875 - crash in About GNOME: running "about gnome"


Summary:	crash in About GNOME: running "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

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Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2007-06-04 10:33 UTC by jjjabc123
Modified:	2007-06-04 12:43 UTC

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

Description jjjabc123 2007-06-04 10:33:22 UTC

Version: 2.18.0

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


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

System: Linux 2.6.20-1.3104.fc7 #1 SMP Sat Apr 21 22:20:43 EDT 2007 i686
X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Vendor Release: 10299905
Selinux: Permissive
Accessibility: Disabled
GTK+ Theme: Glossy
Icon Theme: gnome

Memory status: size: 66514944 vsize: 66514944 resident: 16027648 share: 10330112 rss: 16027648 rss_rlim: 4294967295
CPU usage: start_time: 1180953348 rtime: 65 utime: 55 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/libthread_db.so.1".
(no debugging symbols found)
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1208288832 (LWP 28750)]
(no debugging symbols found)
0x00650402 in __kernel_vsyscall ()

+ Trace 138064

Thread 1 (Thread -1208288832 (LWP 28750))

#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 g_object_set
from /lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#25 _start
#0 __kernel_vsyscall



----------- .xsession-errors (10 sec old) ---------------------
(gnome-terminal:28610): Vte-WARNING **: Can not find appropiate font for character U+ac01.
(gnome-terminal:28610): Vte-WARNING **: Can not find appropiate font for character U+ac04.
(gnome-terminal:28610): Vte-WARNING **: Can not find appropiate font for character U+ac08.
(gnome-terminal:28610): Vte-WARNING **: Can not find appropiate font for character U+ac10.
(yelp:28709): Bonobo-CRITICAL **: bonobo_object_corba_objref: assertion `BONOBO_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
(gnome-about:28750): Pango-WARNING **: shape engine failure, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni Bold Not-Rotated 0'
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Comment 1 Vincent Untz 2007-06-04 12:43:28 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 ***