It happened to me too. I went to user accounts but there was no accounts to configure. I later restarted and got a report that gnome-control- center crashed.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/817357 Title: gnome-control-center crashed with SIGSEGV in g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__PARAM() Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: I boot my computer (Intel x86) from a live usb with Ubuntu 11.10 and everytime appears this message to me. I 've got all updates installed. Steps to reproduce: * Open "User accounts" panel * Enable "Automatic login" box ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.1.4-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-7.8-generic 3.0.0 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-7-generic i686 Architecture: i386 CasperVersion: 1.272 Date: Wed Jul 27 12:01:02 2011 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110727) ProcCmdline: gnome-control-center user-accounts ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SegvAnalysis: Segfault happened at: 0x53ba6dd: mov 0x10(%eax),%eax PC (0x053ba6dd) ok source "0x10(%eax)" (0x00000010) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)! destination "%eax" ok SegvReason: reading NULL VMA Signal: 11 SourcePackage: gnome-control-center StacktraceTop: ?? () from /usr/lib/control-center-1/panels/libuser-accounts.so ?? () from /usr/lib/control-center-1/panels/libuser-accounts.so g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__PARAM () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0 g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0 ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0 Title: gnome-control-center crashed with SIGSEGV in g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__PARAM() UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/817357/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp