Bug 222596

Summary: gnome-control-panel will always crash with a segfault
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Brian Wright <bdw>
Component: control-centerAssignee: Control Center Maintainer <control-center-maint>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version: 6CC: bnocera, triage, wtogami
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Strace output from running gnome-control-center none

Description Brian Wright 2007-01-15 01:40:34 UTC 
Description of problem: gnome-control-center constantly crashes when trying to start


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
control-center-2.16.0-11.fc6


How reproducible: Starting gnome-control-ceneter from either the command line or
GNOME will always result in a crash.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start gnome-control-center from either the command line in a terminal or from
GNOME's "Run" facility
2.
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Actual results:
gnome-control-center crashes with a segmentation fault

Expected results:
gnome-control-center should start and run normally

Additional info:  Bug buddy didn't create a bug report file, I have attached
output from strace.

This segfault happens with all users, including root
Comment 1 Brian Wright 2007-01-15 01:40:35 UTC 
Created attachment 145548 [details]
Strace output from running gnome-control-center
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2007-02-14 13:24:35 UTC 
Could you please gather a backtrace with the control-center-debuginfo,
glib2-debuginfo and gtk2-debuginfo packages installed?

Some instructions are available at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StackTraces
Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 05:36:27 UTC 
Fedora apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We're
sorry it's taken so long for your bug to be properly triaged and acted
on. We appreciate the time you took to report this issue and want to
make sure no important bugs slip through the cracks.

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Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2008-05-06 17:21:20 UTC 
This bug is open for a Fedora version that is no longer maintained and
will not be fixed by Fedora. Therefore we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of
Fedora please feel free to reopen thus bug against that version.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.