Bug 449214

Summary: Crash in _update_action at polkit-gnome-action.c:869
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Allan Engelhardt <allane>
Component: gnome-system-monitorAssignee: Søren Sandmann Pedersen <sandmann>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Stack trace with debug symbols for Comment #2 none

Description Allan Engelhardt 2008-05-31 11:59:08 UTC
Description of problem:

Not sure if this is gnome-system-monitor or polkit so I am starting the the
application that actually crashed.  The upstream developer says this is a
distribution problem, not an upstream problem (see Gnome bug reference below)

Original report: Crashed while killing a(nother) memory-consuming task

Xournal was eating up memory, so I tried to start System Monitor.  The system
was very slow.  I killed Xournal (clicking the 'x' and confirming the "Force
Quit" prompt).  System Monitor still hadn't started.  As soon as Xournal died,
I got this crash dialog from System Monitor.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Some version numbers which may be helpful

$ rpm -q gnome-system-monitor ; rpm -qf $(ldd /usr/bin/gnome-system-monitor |
awk '{print $3}') | sort -u
gnome-system-monitor-2.22.1-5.fc9.x86_64
atk-1.22.0-1.fc9.x86_64
avahi-0.6.22-10.fc9.x86_64
avahi-glib-0.6.22-10.fc9.x86_64
bzip2-libs-1.0.5-1.fc9.x86_64
cairo-1.6.4-1.fc9.x86_64
cairomm-1.5.0-1.fc9.x86_64
dbus-glib-0.74-6.fc9.x86_64
dbus-libs-1.2.1-1.fc9.x86_64
e2fsprogs-libs-1.40.8-3.fc9.x86_64
expat-2.0.1-5.x86_64
fontconfig-2.5.0-2.fc9.x86_64
freetype-freeworld-2.3.5-3.lvn8.x86_64
GConf2-2.22.0-1.fc9.x86_64
glib2-2.16.3-5.fc9.x86_64
glibc-2.8-3.x86_64
glibmm24-2.16.0-1.fc9.x86_64
gnome-vfs2-2.22.0-1.fc9.x86_64
gtk2-2.12.9-5.fc9.x86_64
gtkmm24-2.12.5-1.fc9.x86_64
keyutils-libs-1.2-3.fc9.x86_64
krb5-libs-1.6.3-10.fc9.x86_64
libcap-2.06-4.fc9.x86_64
libcroco-0.6.1-5.fc9.x86_64
libgcc-4.3.0-8.x86_64
libgsf-1.14.8-1.fc9.x86_64
libgtop2-2.22.1-1.fc9.x86_64
libICE-1.0.4-3.fc9.x86_64
libpng-1.2.24-1.fc9.x86_64
librsvg2-2.22.2-1.fc9.x86_64
libselinux-2.0.64-2.fc9.x86_64
libsigc++20-2.2.2-1.fc9.x86_64
libSM-1.0.2-5.fc9.x86_64
libstdc++-4.3.0-8.x86_64
libwnck-2.22.1-1.fc9.x86_64
libX11-1.1.4-1.fc9.x86_64
libXau-1.0.3-5.fc9.x86_64
libxcb-1.1-4.fc9.x86_64
libXcomposite-0.4.0-4.fc9.x86_64
libXcursor-1.1.9-2.fc9.x86_64
libXdmcp-1.0.2-5.fc9.x86_64
libXext-1.0.4-1.fc9.x86_64
libXfixes-4.0.3-3.fc9.x86_64
libXi-1.1.3-4.fc9.x86_64
libXinerama-1.0.3-1.fc9.x86_64
libxml2-2.6.32-1.fc9.x86_64
libXrandr-1.2.2-3.fc9.x86_64
libXrender-0.9.4-3.fc9.x86_64
libXres-1.0.3-4.fc9.x86_64
openssl-0.9.8g-6.fc9.x86_64
ORBit2-2.14.12-3.fc9.x86_64
pango-1.20.1-1.fc9.x86_64
pixman-0.10.0-1.fc9.x86_64
PolicyKit-0.8-2.fc9.x86_64
PolicyKit-gnome-libs-0.8-4.fc9.x86_64
startup-notification-0.9-4.fc9.x86_64
zlib-1.2.3-18.fc9.x86_64


How reproducible: Always.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load system with heavy memory usage
2. Start gnome-system-monitor from the panel applet
3.
  
Actual results: Bug buddy


Expected results: No crash


Additional info: Bug buddy back trace with debug symbols from original Gnome bug
attached

Comment 1 Allan Engelhardt 2008-05-31 11:59:08 UTC
Created attachment 307273 [details]
Bug buddy back trace with debug symbols

Comment 2 Allan Engelhardt 2008-07-02 06:14:06 UTC
Slightly different situation now where gnome-system-monitor crashes (in the same
place) every time I try to start it.  The output to the terminal is

$ gnome-system-monitor 
[WARN  1163] polkit-error.c:143:polkit_error_get_error_message(): error != NULL
 Not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace

** (gnome-system-monitor:1163): WARNING **: Failed to initialize PolicyKit
context: (null)
[WARN  1163] polkit-error.c:156:polkit_error_free(): error != NULL
 Not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace

warning: "/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/2.6.25.6-55.fc9.x86_64/vdso/vdso.so.debug":
The separate debug info file has no debug info


I will attach the bug buddy stack trace, but it is still at
polkit-gnome-action.c:869 .


Comment 3 Allan Engelhardt 2008-07-02 06:15:14 UTC
Created attachment 310765 [details]
Stack trace with debug symbols for Comment #2

See Comment #2.

Comment 4 Allan Engelhardt 2008-07-02 06:17:17 UTC
In Comment #2 I should have mentioned that there is no load on the system (load
average: 0.31, 0.45, 0.36).  I have updated the summary accordingly.


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