Bug 1027395

Summary: [abrt] telepathy-mission-control-5.16.0-2.fc20: g_slist_prepend: Process /usr/libexec/mission-control-5 was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: igor.redhat <igor.redhat>
Component: telepathy-mission-controlAssignee: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity: unspecified Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 20CC: bdpepple, bucky, frank, pbrobinson
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Unspecified   
URL: https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/faf/reports/bthash/d1dbe6fa5013d8a8c0107594be1302b9dcde4b40
Whiteboard: abrt_hash:a88373824b465fd39bf4a6e3cafdbd243ed391cc
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Last Closed: 2015-06-29 12:49:56 UTC Type: ---
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File: backtrace
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File: cgroup
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File: core_backtrace
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File: dso_list
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File: environ
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File: exploitable
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File: limits
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File: maps
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File: open_fds
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File: proc_pid_status
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File: var_log_messages none

Description igor.redhat@gmail.com 2013-11-06 18:01:11 UTC
Version-Release number of selected component:
telepathy-mission-control-5.16.0-2.fc20

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.1.9
backtrace_rating: 4
cmdline:        /usr/libexec/mission-control-5
crash_function: g_slist_prepend
executable:     /usr/libexec/mission-control-5
kernel:         3.11.6-302.fc20.x86_64
runlevel:       N 5
type:           CCpp
uid:            42

Truncated backtrace:
Thread no. 1 (10 frames)
 #0 g_slist_prepend at gslist.c:268
 #1 g_once_init_enter at gthread.c:679
 #2 _mcd_handler_map_get_type at mcd-handler-map.c:34
 #3 _mcd_handler_map_new at mcd-handler-map.c:202
 #4 mcd_dispatcher_constructed at mcd-dispatcher.c:799
 #5 g_object_new_internal at gobject.c:1785
 #6 g_object_new_valist at gobject.c:2002
 #8 mcd_dispatcher_new at mcd-dispatcher.c:919
 #9 mcd_master_constructor at mcd-master.c:209
 #10 g_object_new_with_custom_constructor at gobject.c:1665

Comment 1 igor.redhat@gmail.com 2013-11-06 18:01:20 UTC
Created attachment 820609 [details]
File: backtrace

Comment 2 igor.redhat@gmail.com 2013-11-06 18:01:26 UTC
Created attachment 820610 [details]
File: cgroup

Comment 3 igor.redhat@gmail.com 2013-11-06 18:01:30 UTC
Created attachment 820611 [details]
File: core_backtrace

Comment 4 igor.redhat@gmail.com 2013-11-06 18:01:33 UTC
Created attachment 820612 [details]
File: dso_list

Comment 5 igor.redhat@gmail.com 2013-11-06 18:01:36 UTC
Created attachment 820613 [details]
File: environ

Comment 6 igor.redhat@gmail.com 2013-11-06 18:01:39 UTC
Created attachment 820614 [details]
File: exploitable

Comment 7 igor.redhat@gmail.com 2013-11-06 18:01:42 UTC
Created attachment 820615 [details]
File: limits

Comment 8 igor.redhat@gmail.com 2013-11-06 18:01:46 UTC
Created attachment 820616 [details]
File: maps

Comment 9 igor.redhat@gmail.com 2013-11-06 18:01:49 UTC
Created attachment 820617 [details]
File: open_fds

Comment 10 igor.redhat@gmail.com 2013-11-06 18:01:52 UTC
Created attachment 820618 [details]
File: proc_pid_status

Comment 11 igor.redhat@gmail.com 2013-11-06 18:01:55 UTC
Created attachment 820619 [details]
File: var_log_messages

Comment 12 Alan Schmidt 2013-12-20 15:35:08 UTC
Abrt tells me about this every day since updating to FC20 and refers me to this bug when I try to report it.

It's especially odd to me since I don't run any instant messengers--so although the impact of this error on me, personally, is quite low, I wonder if the fact it's running at all is itself maybe the problem?

Comment 13 Alan Schmidt 2013-12-29 23:44:23 UTC
Anything I can do to help upgrade this problem from "New" (i.e.: Not sure if you're nuts or not) to "Confirmed" (i.e.: okay, you're not nuts)?

Comment 14 Frank Crawford 2014-01-03 12:20:30 UTC
I'm also suffering the same thing on 5 out of 6 F20 systems I've set up.  On the those systems nothing is set up for accounts.  The one that isn't generating complaints does have some g-o-a accounts set up.

The biggest thing I've noticed is that it is trying to send DBus messages, which are getting rejected.  I've no idea why it happens when the system is first booted!

Comment 15 Frank Crawford 2014-01-04 12:24:56 UTC
I may well have found why this is occurring, it is a permission error in /var/lib/gdm/.local, which I believe is caused by some upgrade in the past.   A simple fix is to do:

chown -R gdm:gdm /var/lib/gdm/.local

The specific issue is that gdm is starting mission-control as user gdm, which has a home directory of /var/lib/gdm.  At some point in the past an upgrade for GNOME move information from other directories (.gconf?) to .local, but was run as root and so .local is now owned by root.

When mission-control attempts to start, it does not find any of its configuration information, but when it attempts to create dummy files, it fails and aborts or crashes (someone can see if it handles errors properly).

Correcting the permission problem fixes the crash.

FYI, looking at dates and times, the conversion was probably from F14 -> F15, with the upgrade to Gnome3.

Now the big question, why is gdm starting mission-control and other non-essential items.  However, I'm going to log this issue under gdm.

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