Bug 597708 – rhythmbox crashed with SIGSEGV in rb_source_get_config_widget()

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Bug 597708 - rhythmbox crashed with SIGSEGV in rb_source_get_config_widget()


Summary:	rhythmbox crashed with SIGSEGV in rb_source_get_config_widget()


Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	rhythmbox
Classification:	Other
Component:	general
Version:	0.12.x
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	Normal critical
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	RhythmBox Maintainers
QA Contact:	RhythmBox Maintainers

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Whiteboard:

Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2009-10-07 16:43 UTC by Pedro Villavicencio
Modified:	2009-10-10 01:34 UTC

See Also:
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Description Pedro Villavicencio 2009-10-07 16:43:58 UTC

this report has been filed here:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/+bug/444526

"I tried to enter in Preferences."

rhythmbox 0.12.5-0ubuntu1

".

+ Trace 218134

Thread 1 (process 8598)

#0 rb_library_source_layout_path_changed
at rb-library-source.c line 1029
#1 rb_library_source_preferences_sync
at rb-library-source.c line 628
#2 impl_get_config_widget
at rb-library-source.c line 533
#3 rb_source_get_config_widget
at rb-source.c line 974
#4 rb_shell_preferences_new
at rb-shell-preferences.c line 360
#5 rb_shell_cmd_preferences
at rb-shell.c line 2209
#6 g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#7 g_closure_invoke
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#8 ??
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#9 g_signal_emit_valist
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#10 g_signal_emit
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#11 _gtk_action_emit_activate
at /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.18.2/gtk/gtkaction.c line 721
#12 IA__gtk_action_activate
at /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.18.2/gtk/gtkaction.c line 751
#13 g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#14 ??
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#15 g_closure_invoke
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#16 ??
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#17 g_signal_emit_valist
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#18 g_signal_emit
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#19 IA__gtk_widget_activate
at /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.18.2/gtk/gtkwidget.c line 4793
#20 IA__gtk_menu_shell_activate_item
at /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.18.2/gtk/gtkmenushell.c line 1125
#21 gtk_menu_shell_button_release
at /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.18.2/gtk/gtkmenushell.c line 716
#22 gtk_menu_button_release
at /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.18.2/gtk/gtkmenu.c line 2969
#23 _gtk_marshal_BOOLEAN__BOXED
at /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.18.2/gtk/gtkmarshalers.c line 89
#24 ??
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#25 g_closure_invoke
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#26 ??
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#27 g_signal_emit_valist
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#28 g_signal_emit
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#29 gtk_widget_event_internal
at /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.18.2/gtk/gtkwidget.c line 4772
#30 IA__gtk_propagate_event
at /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.18.2/gtk/gtkmain.c line 2422
#31 IA__gtk_main_do_event
at /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.18.2/gtk/gtkmain.c line 1499
#32 gdk_event_translate
at /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.18.2/gdk/x11/gdkevents-x11.c line 1263
#33 g_main_context_dispatch
from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#34 ??
from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#35 g_main_loop_run
from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#36 IA__gtk_main
at /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.18.2/gtk/gtkmain.c line 1211
#37 main
at main.c line 332

Comment 1 Jonathan Matthew 2009-10-10 01:34:40 UTC

No idea how this could actually happen, but I've added some checks to prevent it crashing if it does.

commit 2d0e5113aaecce2b293786b5081a04a67f1e9691
Author: Jonathan Matthew <jonathan@d14n.org>
Date:   Sat Oct 10 11:33:19 2009 +1000

    library: don't crash if gconf_client_get_entry returns NULL (bug 597708)