I sent patches to the upstream upower bug that improve the behaviour when connecting to upowerd on D-Bus fails. However, libupower already behaved in the current way forever, so this is nothing new in Xenial. Thus the patches will also only help so far: they should avoid the segfault, but you'll still get invalid data presented in the UI as the client/the library never reconnects to upowerd.
The root cause here is that upowerd takes very long to start as it gets blocked reading some kernel attributes. This needs to be fixed in the kernel to truly solve this bug. ** Changed in: upower (Ubuntu Yakkety) Status: Confirmed => In Progress ** Changed in: upower (Ubuntu Yakkety) Assignee: (unassigned) => Martin Pitt (pitti) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to upower in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1546641 Title: unity-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in up_exported_daemon_get_lid_is_closed() Status in Upower: Unknown Status in unity-settings-daemon package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in upower package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in unity-settings-daemon source package in Xenial: Triaged Status in upower source package in Xenial: Confirmed Status in unity-settings-daemon source package in Yakkety: Triaged Status in upower source package in Yakkety: In Progress Bug description: https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/8ca9c548fc4e2fc1d4bf827bbd85c72df59313f8 Ubuntu 16.04 crashes immediately on login. Default settings not applied and appearance is a bit ugly (incorrect font hinting, in- window menus etc). --- ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-6.21-generic 4.4.1 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-6-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 CrashCounter: 1 Date: Wed Feb 17 13:52:13 2016 ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/unity-settings-daemon/unity-settings-daemon InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-02-08 (8 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160205) ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/unity-settings-daemon/unity-settings-daemon ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=pt_BR:pt:en PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/false SegvAnalysis: Segfault happened at: 0x3aae60fe69 <up_exported_daemon_get_lid_is_closed+9>: mov (%rbx),%rdi PC (0x3aae60fe69) ok source "(%rbx)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)! destination "%rdi" ok SegvReason: reading NULL VMA Signal: 11 SourcePackage: unity-settings-daemon StacktraceTop: up_exported_daemon_get_lid_is_closed () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libupower-glib.so.3 gsd_power_manager_start () from /usr/lib/unity-settings-daemon-1.0/libpower.so ?? () from /usr/lib/unity-settings-daemon-1.0/libpower.so gnome_settings_plugin_info_activate () ?? () Title: unity-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in up_exported_daemon_get_lid_is_closed() UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/upower/+bug/1546641/+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