I am wondering if this affects only macbooks. Same here in MBP 8.1 Still present in 3.4.0-0ubuntu1
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/959874 Title: gnome-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in ubuntu_osd_do_notification() Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” source package in Precise: Fix Committed Bug description: I started seeing this problem after updating today (2012-03-19). g-s-d crashes every time I try to use the hotkeys to adjust the keyboard backlight brightness. I see lines like the following in syslog: Mar 19 20:55:17 ubuntu-mba kernel: [ 250.180733] gnome-settings-[4019]: segfault at f0 ip 00007f9dc774235b sp 00007fff0cedffe0 error 4 in libmedia-keys.so[7f9dc7735000+25000] Mar 19 20:55:17 ubuntu-mba gnome-session[3722]: WARNING: App 'gnome-settings-daemon.desktop' respawning too quickly Mar 19 20:55:17 ubuntu-mba gnome-session[3722]: CRITICAL: We failed, but the fail whale is dead. Sorry.... The machine is a MacBook Air 4,1. ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: gnome-settings-daemon 3.3.92-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-19.30-generic 3.2.11 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-19-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CrashCounter: 1 Date: Mon Mar 19 20:50:21 2012 EcryptfsInUse: Yes ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64+mac (20111208) ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SegvAnalysis: Segfault happened at: 0x7f19aa61235b: cmpq $0x0,(%rdi) PC (0x7f19aa61235b) ok source "$0x0" ok destination "(%rdi)" (0x000000f0) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)! SegvReason: writing NULL VMA Signal: 11 SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon StacktraceTop: ?? () from /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/libmedia-keys.so ?? () from /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/libmedia-keys.so g_simple_async_result_complete () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0 g_simple_async_result_complete () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0 Title: gnome-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in g_simple_async_result_complete() UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/959874/+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