just had the exact same crash on 14.04, i cleaned history turn off saving opened unity and changed scope. all this without closing the settings.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1290758 Title: unity-control-center crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance() Status in “unity-control-center” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Set privacy from on to off ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: unity-control-center 14.04.3+14.04.20140310-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-16.36-generic 3.13.5 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-16-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.13.3-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Tue Mar 11 10:08:41 2014 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/unity-control-center InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-28 (10 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140228) ProcCmdline: unity-control-center appearance ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=de_CH:de PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=de_CH.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SegvAnalysis: Segfault happened at: 0x7f14292807f9 <g_type_check_instance+25>: mov (%rax),%rdi PC (0x7f14292807f9) ok source "(%rax)" (0x280000007c00) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)! destination "%rdi" ok SegvReason: reading unknown VMA Signal: 11 SourcePackage: unity-control-center StacktraceTop: g_type_check_instance () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0 g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0 g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk-3.so.0 Title: unity-control-center crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance() UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo usr_lib_unity-control-center: activity-log-manager 0.9.7-0ubuntu10 deja-dup 29.5-0ubuntu2 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-control-center/+bug/1290758/+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