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Patch sent to Debian. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gsettings-desktop-schemas in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1060249 Title: frontend crashed with signal 5 in free_pending_nulls() Status in “debconf” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “gsettings-desktop-schemas” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “debconf” source package in Precise: Invalid Status in “debconf” source package in Quantal: Won't Fix Status in “gsettings-desktop-schemas” source package in Quantal: Fix Released Bug description: Crashed during upgrade from Precise to Quantal without any visible effect TEST CASE 1: 1. Install Precise 12.04.1 2. Upgrade to Quantal TEST CASE 2: This test case is used to reproduce the debconf crash: 1. Install Precise 12.04.1 and apply updates 2. Enable apt repository for Quantal 3. Install gsettings-desktop-schemas from Quantal: $ sudo apt-get install gsettings-desktop-schemas/quantal 4. Run man-db trigger manually with: $ sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gnome \ /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend \ /var/lib/dpkg/info/man-db.postinst triggered \ /usr/share/man => Verify that debconf crashes Actually any gtk based application will crash. ACTUAL RESULT This crash is reported on first login after upgrade. ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: debconf 1.5.46ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-16.25-generic 3.5.4 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-16-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Oct 2 14:59:09 2012 ExecutablePath: /usr/share/debconf/frontend InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425) InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/perl PackageArchitecture: all ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/man-db.postinst triggered /usr/share/man ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, user) LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash Signal: 5 SourcePackage: debconf StacktraceTop: ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 g_node_copy_deep () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 ?? () g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0 Title: frontend crashed with signal 5 in g_node_copy_deep() UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-02 (0 days ago) UserGroups: To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debconf/+bug/1060249/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
