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gnome-appearance-properties crashed with SIGSEGV in __mktime_internal()

Bug #189191 reported by JRulez on 2008-02-05

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-desktop	Fix Released	Medium	gnome-bugs #515362
	gnome-desktop (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

At some point when I started up gnome-appearance-properties it failed to open. It briefly shows the window with several thumbnails of themes, except one for the custom theme. then it segfaults (after <1sec). after installing the debugging librar
ies for gnome I found that the error resides in __mktime_internal during a create_thumbnail call in libgnome-desktop-2. see attached strace and gdb output.

output:
roel@eliezer:~$ gnome-appearance-properties

(gnome-appearance-properties:9024): appearance-properties-WARNING **: Unknown Tag: comment

(gnome-appearance-properties:9024): appearance-properties-WARNING **: Unknown Tag: comment

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Tue Feb 5 10:08:56 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-appearance-properties
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia cdrom
Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.21.90-0ubuntu1 [modified: usr/bin/gnome-control-center usr/bin/gnome-at-properties usr/bin/gnome-default-applications-properties usr/bin/gnome-keybinding-properties usr/bin/gnome-keyboard-properties usr/bin/gnome-mouse-properties usr/bin/gnome-network-preferences usr/bin/gnome-window-properties usr/bin/gnome-display-properties usr/bin/gnome-about-me usr/bin/gnome-sound-properties usr/bin/gnome-theme-thumbnailer usr/bin/themus-theme-applier usr/bin/gnome-thumbnail-font usr/bin/gnome-font-viewer usr/bin/gnome-typing-monitor]
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdline: gnome-appearance-properties
ProcCwd: /home/roel/tmp
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/opt/crosstool/gcc-4.1.0-glibc-2.3.6/powerpc-603-linux-gnu/bin/:/opt/crosstool/gcc-4.1.0-glibc-2.3.6/powerpc-405-linux-gnu/bin/:/home/roel/bin/:/home/roel/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
StacktraceTop:
__mktime_internal () from /lib/libc.so.6
?? () from /usr/lib/libgnome-desktop-2.so.2
gnome_bg_create_thumbnail ()
gnome_wp_item_get_thumbnail ()
?? ()
Title: gnome-appearance-properties crashed with SIGSEGV in __mktime_internal()
Uname: Linux eliezer 2.6.24-5-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 24 19:29:14 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev scanner video

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JRulez (r-j-meeuws) wrote on 2008-02-05:

#1

Dependencies.txt Edit (16.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Disassembly.txt Edit (925 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (47.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (684 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Registers.txt Edit (1019 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Stacktrace.txt Edit (923 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (950 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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JRulez (r-j-meeuws) wrote on 2008-02-05:

#2

output of strace Edit (833.9 KiB, text/html)

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2008-02-05: Symbolic stack trace

#3

Stacktrace.txt (retraced) Edit (3.7 KiB, text/plain)

StacktraceTop:__mktime_internal () from /lib/libc.so.6
get_as_slideshow (bg=0xf9de40,
gnome_bg_create_thumbnail (bg=0xf9de40,
gnome_wp_item_get_thumbnail (item=0xfae810,
wp_props_load_wallpaper (key=<value optimized out>,

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2008-02-05: Symbolic threaded stack trace

#4

ThreadStacktrace.txt (retraced) Edit (3.7 KiB, text/plain)

Changed in gnome-control-center:
importance:	Undecided → Medium

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2008-02-09:

#5

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=515362

Changed in gnome-control-center:
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
status:	New → Triaged

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2008-02-09

Changed in gnome-desktop:
status:	Unknown → New

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JRulez (r-j-meeuws) wrote on 2008-02-09:

#6

I solved my problem! It seemed that after some update the pictures in the package gnome-backgrounds-extra-debian were all of zero length. The segmentation fault was caused by this. I solved the problem by removing the gnome-backgrounds-extra-debian package. Everything works perfectly again.

thx for your time,

roel

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2008-02-11:

#7

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-desktop - 1:2.21.91-0ubuntu1

---------------
gnome-desktop (1:2.21.91-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    libgnome-desktop
    - Fix invalid read
    - Fix compilation issue caused by some headers
    - Port to gio
    - Fix crash in GnomeBG when file is empty (lp: #189191)
    gnome-about
    - Add back a --version option (lp: #175235)
    Misc
    - Require gio, and get rid of gnome-vfs
  * debian/control.in:
    - don't use gnomevfs
    - updated libglib requirement

-- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:12:02 +0100

Changed in gnome-desktop:
status:	Triaged → Fix Released

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2008-02-12

Changed in gnome-desktop:
status:	New → Fix Released

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2010-09-15

Changed in gnome-desktop:
importance:	Unknown → Medium

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