I'm pretty sure the cause of this bug was again an incorrect python thread state, same as in bug #1195857 and a number of similar cases. The just released Onboard v0.99.0 has fixes for all of them..
** Changed in: onboard Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to onboard in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1196324 Title: onboard crashed with SIGSEGV in PyUnicode_InternInPlace() Status in Onboard on-screen keyboard: Fix Released Status in “onboard” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: it stoped working after the upgrade 13.10 ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: onboard 0.99.0~alpha1~tr1190-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.10.0-0.7-generic 3.10.0-rc7 Uname: Linux 3.10.0-0-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.10.2-0ubuntu3 Architecture: i386 CrashCounter: 1 Date: Sun Jun 30 16:47:15 2013 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/onboard InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-03-30 (92 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha i386 (20130328) InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.3 MarkForUpload: True ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/onboard SegvAnalysis: Segfault happened at: 0x8131ef9 <PyUnicode_InternFromString+89>: movzbl 0x11(%esi),%edi PC (0x08131ef9) ok source "0x11(%esi)" (0x00000011) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)! destination "%edi" ok SegvReason: reading NULL VMA Signal: 11 SourcePackage: onboard StacktraceTop: PyUnicode_InternInPlace (p=<synthetic pointer>) at ../Objects/unicodeobject.c:14234 PyUnicode_InternFromString (cp=0xb70bbbff "get_window") at ../Objects/unicodeobject.c:14274 PyObject_GetAttrString (v=0xb42da734, name=0xb70bbbff "get_window") at ../Objects/object.c:821 PyObject_CallMethod (o=0xb42da734, name=0xb70bbbff "get_window", format=0x0) at ../Objects/abstract.c:2202 ?? () from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/Onboard/osk.cpython-33m-i386-linux-gnu.so Title: onboard crashed with SIGSEGV in PyUnicode_InternInPlace() UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-06-22 (8 days ago) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip disk libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/onboard/+bug/1196324/+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