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Bug 454511 - crash in About GNOME: I selected Desktop -> Ab...
crash in About GNOME: I selected Desktop -> Ab...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 431990
Product: gnome-desktop
Classification: Core
Component: gnome-about
2.18.x
Other All
: High critical
: ---
Assigned To: Desktop Maintainers
Desktop Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-07-07 09:03 UTC by dont
Modified: 2007-07-07 12:07 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.17/2.18


Description dont 2007-07-07 09:03:31 UTC 
Version: 2.18.2

What were you doing when the application crashed?
I selected Desktop -> About Gnome I was watching the messages and I started to list peoples names who Gnome is brought to you by and it crashed. :/


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 Apr 18 09:55:10 UTC 2007 i686
X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Vendor Release: 70101000
Selinux: No
Accessibility: Disabled
GTK+ Theme: Clearlooks
Icon Theme: gnome

Memory status: size: 21159936 vsize: 21159936 resident: 11366400 share: 8118272 rss: 11366400 rss_rlim: 4294967295
CPU usage: start_time: 1183798851 rtime: 17 utime: 13 stime: 4 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 -1224476992 (LWP 18429)]
(no debugging symbols found)
0xb7dcdaee in __waitpid_nocancel () from /lib/libpthread.so.0

+ Trace 146294

Thread 1 (Thread -1224476992 (LWP 18429))

  • #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 ---------------------
** (gnome-cups-icon:3236): WARNING **: IPP request failed with status 1280
** (gnome-cups-icon:3236): WARNING **: IPP request failed with status 1280
** (gnome-cups-icon:3236): WARNING **: IPP request failed with status 1280
** (gnome-cups-icon:3236): WARNING **: IPP request failed with status 1280
** (gnome-cups-icon:3236): WARNING **: IPP request failed with status 1280
** (gnome-cups-icon:3236): WARNING **: IPP request failed with status 1280
(gnome-about:18429): Pango-WARNING **: shape engine failure, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Bitstream Vera 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 12:07:16 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 ***