The bug hasn't seen any activity in years and there has been no recent similar reports, the code also changed quite a lot since and it's likely the issue doesn't exist anymore. Closing, feel free to open a new report if you still get problems in recent Ubuntu versions
** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1056149 Title: gnome-control-center crashed with SIGSEGV in _shell_remove_all_custom_widgets() Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: gnome-control-center crashed with SIGSEGV in _start() ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu15 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-15.22-generic 3.5.4 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-15-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.5.2-0ubuntu4 Architecture: i386 CrashCounter: 1 Date: Tue Sep 25 15:11:46 2012 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423) ProcCmdline: gnome-control-center --overview SegvAnalysis: Segfault happened at: 0xb77a2db8: mov 0x4(%ecx),%ebp PC (0xb77a2db8) ok source "0x4(%ecx)" (0x00000004) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)! destination "%ebp" ok SegvReason: reading NULL VMA Signal: 11 SourcePackage: gnome-control-center StacktraceTop: ?? () ?? () _start () Title: gnome-control-center crashed with SIGSEGV in _start() UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-09-12 (13 days ago) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin netdev plugdev root sambashare sudo www-data usr_lib_gnome-control-center: activity-log-manager-control-center 0.9.4-0ubuntu3 deja-dup 23.92-0ubuntu1 gnome-control-center-signon 0.0.17-0ubuntu1 indicator-datetime 12.10.1-0ubuntu1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1056149/+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