Bug 443993 – crash in About GNOME: opening gnome

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Bug 443993 - crash in About GNOME: opening gnome


Summary:	crash in About GNOME: opening 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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Whiteboard:

Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2007-06-04 15:52 UTC by r.pheeps
Modified:	2007-06-04 19:00 UTC

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

Description r.pheeps 2007-06-04 15:52:30 UTC

Version: 2.18.0

What were you doing when the application crashed?
opening gnome


Distribution: Fedora release 7 (Moonshine)
Gnome Release: 2.18.0 2007-03-23 (Red Hat, Inc)
BugBuddy Version: 2.18.0

System: Linux 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 #1 SMP Wed May 23 22:47:07 EDT 2007 x86_64
X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Vendor Release: 10300000
Selinux: Enforcing
Accessibility: Disabled
GTK+ Theme: Clearlooks
Icon Theme: Fedora

Memory status: size: 259235840 vsize: 259235840 resident: 15187968 share: 9125888 rss: 15187968 rss_rlim: 18446744073709551615
CPU usage: start_time: 1180972257 rtime: 24 utime: 21 stime: 3 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 "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1".
(no debugging symbols found)
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 46912498979232 (LWP 3182)]
(no debugging symbols found)
0x0000003a9c80d865 in waitpid () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0

+ Trace 138160

Thread 1 (Thread 46912498979232 (LWP 3182))

#0 waitpid
from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
#1 ??
from /usr/lib64/libgnomeui-2.so.0
#2 <signal handler called>
#3 pthread_mutex_lock
from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
#4 ??
from /usr/lib64/libcairo.so.2
#5 ??
from /usr/lib64/libcairo.so.2
#6 ??
from /usr/lib64/libcairo.so.2
#7 cairo_scaled_font_text_extents
from /usr/lib64/libcairo.so.2
#8 ??
from /usr/lib64/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0
#9 ??
from /usr/lib64/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0
#10 ??
from /usr/lib64/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0
#11 ??
from /usr/lib64/libpango-1.0.so.0
#12 pango_shape
from /usr/lib64/libpango-1.0.so.0
#13 ??
from /usr/lib64/libpango-1.0.so.0
#14 ??
from /usr/lib64/libpango-1.0.so.0
#15 ??
from /usr/lib64/libpango-1.0.so.0
#16 ??
from /usr/lib64/libpango-1.0.so.0
#17 pango_layout_get_pixel_extents
from /usr/lib64/libpango-1.0.so.0
#18 pango_layout_get_pixel_size
from /usr/lib64/libpango-1.0.so.0
#19 ??
from /usr/lib64/libgnomecanvas-2.so.0
#20 g_object_set_valist
from /lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#21 gnome_canvas_item_set_valist
from /usr/lib64/libgnomecanvas-2.so.0
#22 gnome_canvas_item_set
from /usr/lib64/libgnomecanvas-2.so.0
#23 _start
#0 waitpid
from /lib64/libpthread.so.0



----------- .xsession-errors (6 sec old) ---------------------
localuser:rpheeps being added to access control list
SESSION_MANAGER=local/tiscali.co.uk:/tmp/.ICE-unix/2746
** Message: Could not connect to power manager: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.PowerManager': no such name
** Message: Could not connect to power manager: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.PowerManager': no such name
CalDAV Eplugin starting up ...
** (evolution:2999): DEBUG: mailto URL command: evolution --component=mail %s
** (evolution:2999): DEBUG: mailto URL program: evolution
libnm_glib_nm_state_cb: dbus returned an error.
  (org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown) The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files
converting comment system...done.
(gnome-about:3182): 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 Ghislain MARY 2007-06-04 19:00:42 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 ***