Bug 659604 – gnome-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in g_variant_unref()

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Bug 659604 - gnome-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in g_variant_unref()


Summary:	gnome-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in g_variant_unref()


Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 655366

Product:	gnome-settings-daemon
Classification:	Core
Component:	xsettings
Version:	3.1.x
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	Normal critical
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	gnome-settings-daemon-maint
QA Contact:	gnome-settings-daemon-maint

URL:
Whiteboard:

Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2011-09-20 15:25 UTC by Pedro Villavicencio
Modified:	2011-10-03 13:26 UTC

See Also:
GNOME target:	---
GNOME version:	3.1/3.2

Description Pedro Villavicencio 2011-09-20 15:25:21 UTC

this report has been filed here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/854707

g-s-d version is : 3.1.92-0ubuntu1

"Crashed during final user configuration of an OEM installation."

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+ Trace 228510

Thread 1 (Thread 0xb77de840 (LWP 29089))

#0 g_variant_unref
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.92/./glib/gvariant-core.c line 617
#1 g_settings_get_double
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.92/./gio/gsettings.c line 1934
#2 get_dpi_from_gsettings
at gsd-xsettings-manager.c line 227
#3 xft_settings_get
at gsd-xsettings-manager.c line 261
#4 update_xft_settings
at gsd-xsettings-manager.c line 415
#5 xft_callback
at gsd-xsettings-manager.c line 429
#6 g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__STRING
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.92/./gobject/gmarshal.c line 504
#7 g_closure_invoke
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.92/./gobject/gclosure.c line 774
#8 signal_emit_unlocked_R
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.92/./gobject/gsignal.c line 3272
#9 g_signal_emit_valist
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.92/./gobject/gsignal.c line 3003
#10 g_signal_emit
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.92/./gobject/gsignal.c line 3060
#11 g_settings_real_change_event
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.92/./gio/gsettings.c line 277
#12 ffi_call_SYSV
at ../src/x86/sysv.S line 64
#13 ffi_call
at ../src/x86/ffi.c line 303
#14 g_cclosure_marshal_generic
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.92/./gobject/gclosure.c line 1147
#15 g_type_class_meta_marshal
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.92/./gobject/gclosure.c line 885
#16 g_closure_invoke
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.92/./gobject/gclosure.c line 774
#17 signal_emit_unlocked_R
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.92/./gobject/gsignal.c line 3310
#18 g_signal_emit_valist
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.92/./gobject/gsignal.c line 3013
#19 g_signal_emit
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.92/./gobject/gsignal.c line 3060
#20 settings_backend_path_changed
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.92/./gio/gsettings.c line 346
#21 g_settings_backend_invoke_closure
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.92/./gio/gsettingsbackend.c line 271
#22 g_idle_dispatch
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.92/./glib/gmain.c line 4801
#23 g_main_dispatch
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.92/./glib/gmain.c line 2441
#24 g_main_context_dispatch
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.92/./glib/gmain.c line 3011
#25 g_main_context_iterate
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.92/./glib/gmain.c line 3089
#26 g_main_loop_run
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.92/./glib/gmain.c line 3297
#27 gtk_main
at /build/buildd/gtk+3.0-3.1.90/./gtk/gtkmain.c line 1367
#28 main
at main.c line 454

Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2011-09-20 15:45:31 UTC

The GSettings we're trying to read this from is NULL, but I cannot find where we would have the ->settings hashtable being NULL or empty, and ->plugin_settings not being unreferenced already.

Comment 2 Rodney Dawes 2011-10-03 13:26:52 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 655366 ***