** Description changed: + SRU REQUEST + as per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#SRU_Bug_Template + Originally written by https://launchpad.net/~mnaumann + + [Impact] + + End user impact: + + XFCE session closes (due to segfault) without specific (or any) user action, unsaved work is lost, user needs to login again. Critical UX impact to XFCE users on at least Raring (there are reports that Quantal is affected, too). + + Justification for backporting the fix to the stable release: + + A tiny upstream patch is available: + http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-session/commit/?id=ab391138cacc62ab184a338e237c4430356b41f9 + It has been packaged (no other changes) by Ricardo Teixas, tested by several users who commented on the XFCE and Ubuntu bug trackers, and has been reviewed and approved by 7 of the Ubuntu community. + According to tests by users + + [Test Case] + + How to reproduce: + + An exact trigger action is not known, reports state that the session will often fail faster if user starts and quits applications such as Firefox or Thunderbird, or adds / removes applets to/from or interacts with panel. On affected system with user interaction, the session process should fail after a maximum of 1 hour of use, though most likely it will take more like less than 10 minutes. + + + [Regression Potential] + + My (limited) understanding is that the patch is minimally invasive. + As discussed above, the patch is well tested and there are no reports, + after (sometimes) weeks of use, that it would introduce new issues. + Based on my (limited) understanding, there is no or neglegible + regression potential involved. + + [Other Info] + + Upstream version 4.10.1 includes the patch, tagged on May 5: http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-session/tag/?id=xfce4-session-4.10.1 + Upstream version 4.10.1 has not been released, yet: http://archive.xfce.org/xfce/4.10/src/ + + + Please feel free to edit and take over theis SRU request if you feel more qualified to handle it (I don't feel very qualified myself). Please also note that I am unable to upload a patch to *-proposed. + + + ---- + Original bug report: + During normal operation, suddenly, without any particular reason, the session was restarted. The problem was repeated several times, even several times. Only now I was able to report a bug, because after each restart of the session, error reporting program was closed. Podczas normalnej pracy, nagle, bez żadnej konkretnej przyczyny, sesja została zrestartowana. Problem powtarzał się wielokrotnie, nawet kilka razy. Dopiero teraz udalo mi się zgłosić błąd, gdyż po każdym restarcie sesji, program raportowania błędów był zamykany. ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: xfce4-session 4.10.0-2ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-1.5-generic 3.8.0-rc4 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-1-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CrashCounter: 1 Date: Thu Jan 24 21:34:23 2013 EcryptfsInUse: Yes ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/xfce4-session InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-01-13 (11 days ago) InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130113) MarkForUpload: True ProcCmdline: xfce4-session ProcEnviron: - PATH=(custom, no user) - XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> - LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8 - SHELL=/bin/bash + PATH=(custom, no user) + XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> + LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8 + SHELL=/bin/bash SegvAnalysis: - Segfault happened at: 0x7f07ac55f5af <g_slice_alloc+223>: mov (%rbx),%rax - PC (0x7f07ac55f5af) ok - source "(%rbx)" (0xffffffff00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)! - destination "%rax" ok + Segfault happened at: 0x7f07ac55f5af <g_slice_alloc+223>: mov (%rbx),%rax + PC (0x7f07ac55f5af) ok + source "(%rbx)" (0xffffffff00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)! + destination "%rax" ok SegvReason: reading unknown VMA Signal: 11 SourcePackage: xfce4-session StacktraceTop: - g_slice_alloc () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 - g_signal_connect_data () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0 - ?? () from /usr/lib/libwnck-1.so.22 - ?? () from /usr/lib/libwnck-1.so.22 - ?? () from /usr/lib/libwnck-1.so.22 + g_slice_alloc () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 + g_signal_connect_data () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0 + ?? () from /usr/lib/libwnck-1.so.22 + ?? () from /usr/lib/libwnck-1.so.22 + ?? () from /usr/lib/libwnck-1.so.22 Title: xfce4-session crashed with SIGSEGV in g_slice_alloc() UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
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