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cappuccino_se

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2010-02-05

Posts: 3

multiple gconftool segfaults during update

I got multiple segmentation faults while updating today. Some gnome-related packages gave me this error message:

usr/sbin/gconfpkg: line 18: 10915 Segmentation fault
GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`/usr/bin/gconftool-2 --get-default-source`
/usr/bin/gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule
/usr/share/gconf/schemas/${pkgname}.schemas > /dev/null

After a restart I found this in the syslog:

Feb  5 10:04:57 arch kernel: gconftool-2[23212]: segfault at 1c4f ip b7408f71 sp
 bfd137bc error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[b7395000+141000]
Feb  5 10:04:57 arch kernel: gconftool-2[23217]: segfault at 1c4f ip b75aef71 sp
 bf928b4c error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[b753b000+141000]
Feb  5 10:05:02 arch dbus-daemon: Reloaded configuration
Feb  5 10:05:03 arch dbus-daemon: Reloaded configuration
Feb  5 10:05:03 arch kernel: gconftool-2[23237]: segfault at 1c4f ip b75b9f71 sp bfa277ec error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[b7546000+141000]
Feb  5 10:05:03 arch kernel: gconftool-2[23242]: segfault at 1c4f ip b7474f71 sp bfeb4dbc error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[b7401000+141000]
Feb  5 10:05:07 arch kernel: gconftool-2[23285]: segfault at 1c4f ip b7550f71 sp bf9467cc error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[b74dd000+141000]
Feb  5 10:05:07 arch kernel: gconftool-2[23290]: segfault at 1c4f ip b7421f71 sp bf88f26c error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[b73ae000+141000]
Feb  5 10:05:07 arch kernel: gconftool-2[23295]: segfault at 1c4f ip b7451f71 sp bff8f0dc error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[b73de000+141000]
Feb  5 10:05:07 arch kernel: gconftool-2[23300]: segfault at 1c4f ip b7551f71 sp bf91411c error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[b74de000+141000]
Feb  5 10:05:07 arch kernel: gconftool-2[23306]: segfault at 1c4f ip b74faf71 sp bf953bdc error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[b7487000+141000]
Feb  5 10:05:08 arch kernel: gconftool-2[23311]: segfault at 1c4f ip b7425f71 sp bfb207ac error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[b73b2000+141000]
Feb  5 10:05:08 arch kernel: gconftool-2[23317]: segfault at 1c4f ip b743ff71 sp bfb4b61c error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[b73cc000+141000]
Feb  5 10:05:08 arch kernel: gconftool-2[23322]: segfault at 1c4f ip b75b5f71 sp bfde288c error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[b7542000+141000]
Feb  5 10:05:08 arch kernel: gconftool-2[23327]: segfault at 1c4f ip b75c5f71 sp bfb72bfc error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[b7552000+141000]
Feb  5 10:05:08 arch kernel: gconftool-2[23332]: segfault at 1c4f ip b74c8f71 sp bfc60a8c error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[b7455000+141000]

After the restart I could log into gnome but it showed me a grey screen. This seems to be related to http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14107 somehow but I'm using the en_US.utf8 locale. Fixed it by running

export LANG=C
export GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`/usr/bin/gconftool-2 --get-default-source`
for i in /usr/share/gconf/schemas/*.schemas; do
/usr/bin/gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule $i
done

and a restart. Everything is working again now.

EDIT: David Rankin has the same problems. http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/ … 10849.html

Last edited by cappuccino_se (2010-02-05 11:55:07)

cell

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Registered: 2007-10-23

Posts: 111

Re: multiple gconftool segfaults during update

I posted just before you and I think I can now mark my thread as solved. Thanks.