Bug 454387 – crash in About GNOME: I went to System > About...

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Bug 454387 - crash in About GNOME: I went to System > About...


Summary:	crash in About GNOME: I went to System > About...


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:	2007-07-06 20:41 UTC by mtpolilomas
Modified:	2007-07-07 08:42 UTC

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

Description mtpolilomas 2007-07-06 20:41:38 UTC

Version: 2.18.2

What were you doing when the application crashed?
I went to System > About Gnome , and crashed while showing titles. Apart from that, i am running gnome-terminal, nautilus and Iceweasel. I am with Debian Testing. 





Distribution: Debian lenny/sid
Gnome Release: 2.18.2 2007-05-28 (Debian)
BugBuddy Version: 2.18.1

System: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Wed May 9 23:03:12 UTC 2007 i686
X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Vendor Release: 10300000
Selinux: No
Accessibility: Disabled
GTK+ Theme: Clearlooks
Icon Theme: gnome

Memory status: size: 24322048 vsize: 24322048 resident: 14458880 share: 9170944 rss: 14458880 rss_rlim: 4294967295
CPU usage: start_time: 1183751653 rtime: 62 utime: 56 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 -1224456512 (LWP 2805)]
(no debugging symbols found)
0xb7dd2aee in __waitpid_nocancel () from /lib/libpthread.so.0

+ Trace 146206

Thread 1 (Thread -1224456512 (LWP 2805))

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



----------- .xsession-errors ---------------------
** Message: volume = 0
** Message: drive = 0
** Message: volume = 0
** Message: drive = 0
** Message: volume = 0
** Message: drive = 0
** Message: volume = 0
** Message: drive = 0
** Message: volume = 0
(gnome-about:2787): Pango-WARNING **: shape engine failure, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'DejaVu Sans Bold Not-Rotated 0'
Failed to read a valid object file image from memory.
(gnome-about:2805): Pango-WARNING **: shape engine failure, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'DejaVu Sans Bold Not-Rotated 0'
Failed to read a valid object file image from memory.
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Comment 1 Vincent Untz 2007-07-07 08:42:41 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 ***