Comment 34 for bug 269651

Hi Martin,

I had this bug already at least 12 - 15 times. It is always fatal, but you cannot reproduce it at will. The best way to try and get it is to deliberately mess up your system, requiring reboot. The problem is that I cannot log this.

You could perhaps try it in VirtualBox or VMWare:

$ sudo chmod -cR 077 consolekit ; sudo chown -cR 1000 consolekit ; sudo <whatever>

OR

$ sudo chmod -cR 777 /* ; sudo reboot

This will render your system inoperable: If you now try to access your old partition through the LiveCD, you may experience the crash. Make sure you have enough linux-swap available (at least 5 GB) and update and upgrade completely, use all necessary debyg-symbols, hopefully you could do this. I will go for a fresh reinstall soon. Please give me instructions if you want me to try this out.

Thanks,

Thomas