gksu crashed with SIGSEGV in g_closure_invoke()

Bug #284894 reported by Amit Kucheria
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gksu

I get this error when starting anything that depends on sudo (or gksu really). So when the update-manager and bug-buddy(?) icons are clicked, "Starting Administrative Application" shows up for a while, but no prompt for password.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gksu
Package: gksu 2.0.0-5ubuntu3
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gksu --message <span\ weight="bold"\ size="larger">Please\ enter\ your\ password\ to\ access\ problem\ reports\ of\ system\ programs</span> /usr/share/apport/apport-gtk
ProcCwd: /home/amit
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/amit/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gksu
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgksu2.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgksu2.so.0
 g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_signal_emit_valist ()
Title: gksu crashed with SIGSEGV in g_closure_invoke()
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy kvm libvirtd lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev scanner vde2-net video

Tags: apport-crash
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Amit Kucheria (amitk) wrote :

Information regarding the graphics controller.

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:29c2] (rev 02)
 Subsystem: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:29c2]
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 15
 Memory at ffa80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
 I/O ports at ec00 [size=8]
 Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
 Memory at ff900000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
 Capabilities: <access denied>

And compiz is turned off (Visual effects = none) due to another bug 203715

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