From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ia64; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060103 Fedora/1.5-4 Firefox/1.5 Description of problem: Invoking gnome-system-log (either by GUI or CLI) ends up with a dialog box stating that gnome-system-log quits unexpectedly. On the console, the following message is displayed: (gnome-system-log:8515): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_client_get_list: assertion `err == NULL || *err == NULL' failed Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-utils 2.13.5-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start up gnome-system-log from the CLI 2. 3. Additional info:
Already fixed in GNOME CVS: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327614 But why does it crash? Without --g-fatal-warnings it should not crash, and does not on my PPC laptop.
Should be fixed in rawhide
Sorry, gnome-system-log is still crashing (tried gnome-utils-2.13.91-1 and gnome-utils-2.13.91-2). Furthermore, I'm no more getting an output on the console. The annoying thing is that even with debuginfo packages installed (actual attr-debuginfo-2.4.28-1, glib2-debuginfo-2.9.5-1, glibc-debuginfo-2.3.90-36, gnome-utils-debuginfo-2.13.91-2, libselinux-debuginfo-1.29.6-1 and libsepol-debuginfo-1.11.12-1), I can't get a stacktrace (I followed the directions in the Fedora Wiki page). What's missing so that I can produce a stracktrace in order to help solve the problem?
FYI, there's another crasher filed in bug 179688. To get a backtrace with gdb run 'gdb /usr/sbin/gnome-system-log' as root. Otherwise the consolehelper stuff gets in your way. This particular bug should be fixed. Better to open a new one or comment on bug 179688, if that's your current problem.
(In reply to comment #4) > FYI, there's another crasher filed in bug 179688. > > To get a backtrace with gdb run 'gdb /usr/sbin/gnome-system-log' as root. > Otherwise the consolehelper stuff gets in your way. > > This particular bug should be fixed. Better to open a new one or comment on bug > 179688, if that's your current problem. Thanks for your report on bug 179688. I don't know if bug 179688 is related to this one: indeed, comment #5 of bug 179688 states that gnome-utils-2.13.91-2 is fine, which isn't the case here. I've installed the debuginfo packages listed in my previous post (comment #3) and ran gdb gnome-system-log as root or as a user. Unfortunately, bt pretends there's no stack and thread apply all bt has no output at all. I'm probably missing a debuginfo package, but which one? In order to determine which debuginfo package install, I've run ldd /usr/bin/gnome-system-log. Only when I have a stacktrace, I may be able to check whether this bug is similar/related to 179688 or not.
Debuginfo packages won't help in that case. They only make the backtrace more informative. But first there must be a backtrace available at all. A backtrace without debuginfo packages looks like bug 133969 comment #1 for instance. In your case the program seems to exit "normally". Or you forgot to start the program with "run" inside gdb before doing a "bt", but I doubt that...
Here's my mistake: running gdb gnome-system-log as root ends up with no stack but a dialog box telling me that gnome-system-log quits unexpectedly. However, running gdb /usr/sbin/gnome-system-log made the difference: the dialog box isn't displayed but at least I can get a backtrace that seems to be different from the one in bug 179688: #0 0x20000000012ae020 in IA__g_type_check_instance_cast ( type_instance=0x60000000000cc100, iface_type=824432) at gtype.c:2692 #1 0x4000000000010e00 in logview_init (logview=0x6000000000073000) at logview.c:829 #2 0x20000000012b8900 in IA__g_type_create_instance (type=0) at gtype.c:1567 #3 0x200000000127a200 in g_object_constructor (type=6917529027641468752, n_construct_properties=1, construct_params=0x60000000000723f0) at gobject.c:1015 #4 0x2000000001275380 in IA__g_object_newv (object_type=6917529027641468752, n_parameters=468008, parameters=Variable "parameters" is not available. ) at gobject.c:912 #5 0x2000000001276ad0 in IA__g_object_new_valist ( object_type=6917529027641468752, first_property_name=0x0, var_args=Variable "var_args" is not available. ) at gobject.c:955 #6 0x2000000001276ea0 in IA__g_object_new (object_type=6917529027641468752, first_property_name=0x0) at gobject.c:793 #7 0x4000000000010130 in logview_window_new () at logview.c:986 #8 0x4000000000009a00 in main (argc=1, argv=0x60000fffff90b7e8) at main.c:159 #9 0x20000000016831c0 in __libc_start_main (main=Cannot access memory at address 0x1 ) at libc-start.c:231 #10 0x4000000000009580 in _start () #11 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () This is with up-to-date packages (attr-2.4.28-1, glib2-2.9.5-1, glibc-2.3.90-36, gnome-utils-2.13.91-2, libselinux-1.29.6-1, libsepol-1.11.12-1), just before "the massive rebuilt" was announced and I was advised to wait until all packages have been rebuilt before upgrading my system to the latest packages.
Exactly the same problem and stacktrace with up-to-date Rawhide and gnome-utils-2.13.91-2.1
Created attachment 127201 [details] gnome-system-log crash callstack
gnome-system-log (from gnome-utils-2.14.0-3) is still crashing. It seems there's something wrong with glib2 (this is with glib2-2.10.1-1). The relevant callstack is provided in attachment 127201 [details].
gnome-system-log is no more crashing and is working fine :-) This is with gnome-utils-2.15.3-1. In my opinion, this bug report can now be safely closed. Manu thank.