GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 593196
nm-applet crashes in a VNC session
Last modified: 2009-08-27 14:28:52 UTC
Description of problem: I just started a VNC server on Fedora 11 PowerPC and nm-applet crashed leaving behind these errors: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (nm-applet:2295): GLib-WARNING **: GError set over the top of a previous GError or uninitialized memory. This indicates a bug in someone's code. You must ensure an error is NULL before it's set. The overwriting error message was: Connection ":1.63" is not allowed to own the service "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings" due to security policies in the configuration file ** (nm-applet:2295): WARNING **: <WARN> request_name(): Could not acquire the NetworkManagerUserSettings service. Message: '' *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/nm-applet: double free or corruption (out): 0x100da040 *** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): NetworkManager-0.7.1-8.git20090708.fc11.ppc NetworkManager-gnome-0.7.1-8.git20090708.fc11.ppc How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. vncserver Actual results: nm-applet is started by Gnome, but it crashes manually trying to start nm-applet crashes in the same way Expected results: no crash
A backtrace from the crash:
+ Trace 217159
Created attachment 141771 [details] [review] proposed patch It looks like the problem is in 6 in the backtrace, request_name at applet-dbus-manager.c:152 The attached patch should fix the problem.
5f40e02d79057c7c41d279bf82c884a2dc87c90c (master) 1ecf9bfe2d721729ca62218c5ac0d8cdc888dc73 (0.7.x) Thanks!