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Rune.Walsh

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From: Velocity Network

Registered: 2013-10-12

Posts: 6

Segmentation faulting when copying text from various programs.

Greetings, I have had this issue ongoing for months now.  I have done several re-installs and the problems will eventually come pack.  Now I am not ruling out hardware as I am RMAing the motherboard as that is the only thing left remaining.   This is my work PC and I get the errors below when I copy text out of Evolution, Pluma and Remmina are the primary offenders.  But I get core dumps or unrecoverable hard locks also from Firefox, Chrome, when I try to change themes or click modify settings in Virtualbox when a VM is running.  Below is a small snippet from journalctl.

Jan 20 16:54:16 rocker /etc/gdm/Xsession[892]: (evolution:1257): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion 'G_IS_...failed
Jan 20 16:54:16 rocker kernel: evolution[1257]: segfault at 18 ip 00007f31ad554340 sp 00007fffbf0c65b8 error 4 in libgdk...+ab000]

(remmina:1672): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Jan 20 16:55:46 rocker kernel: remmina[1672]: segfault at 18 ip 00007f4976e32340 sp 00007fff4e408f18 error 4 in libgdk-3.so.0.1000.6[7f4976df8000+ab000]
Jan 20 16:55:46 rocker systemd-coredump[3934]: Process 1672 (remmina) dumped core.

The problem in Evolution, Pluma  and Remmina I can recreate on demand to always give the error above.  The others I have to switch to another virtual terminal and reboot.   I have done several fresh installs.  Now my PC at home is the exact same hardware minus the motherboard.  I can pull my drives from this PC and move it to my home PC and the problem does not carry.  I can even move all my hardware (yes everything) minus the motherboard and the problem still does not carry over.  So more than likely the problem, if it is hardware, is the motherboard. 

I have not updated in the past 15 days as updating any package does not fix the issue nor does re-installing the packages the error points to.  I run Mate as a desktop environment currently, with GDM as my greeter.  In case this is not hardware I am posting this to any open suggestions.  I can obtain more logs if requested or provide the hardware specs if that will help.  Thank you in advance for any help/suggestions.    If this is posted in the wrong area also please let me know.

Last edited by Rune.Walsh (2014-01-21 23:06:06)

ewaller

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Re: Segmentation faulting when copying text from various programs.

I don't often jump to blaming hardware, but in this case, I would seriously consider running a RAM test.

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Rune.Walsh

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From: Velocity Network

Registered: 2013-10-12

Posts: 6

Re: Segmentation faulting when copying text from various programs.

Thank you for the reply.

I have run RAM test inside this machine and the same RAM in my home machine on various occasions.  No errors.  I ran them 1 at time and all together.  But as a test I also but that RAM in my home machine and the issue did not repeat.  Meaning I actually swapped all my hardware(processor, RAM, hard drives and cabling).  Now I only ran it for a day.  But I can easily on the work machine make the error happen on demand.