The issue can be only found in gnome-control-center. Unity-control-center won't load extra sound themes by some reason. (by design or a bug? not sure.) So user won't trigger the crash in trusty. However seems Ara think the behavior of unity-control-center is a bug and plan to fix it in future. I'm glad to push the fix to trusty and Utopic.
-- 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/1236612 Title: gnome-control-center crashes when choosing sound effects Status in OEM Priority Project: Incomplete Status in OEM Priority Project precise series: New Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: while i clicked between the different sound effects it suddenly crashed. i could reproduce it, after 4 times selecting another sound effect it crashes, also when the alert volume was "off". ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu41 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-8.15-generic 3.11.1 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-8-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 AssertionMessage: *** Error in `gnome-control-center': munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0x00000000034a2050 *** Date: Mon Oct 7 23:55:09 2013 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-07 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Beta amd64 (20130926) MarkForUpload: True ProcCmdline: gnome-control-center --overview Signal: 6 SourcePackage: gnome-control-center StacktraceTop: __libc_message (do_abort=do_abort@entry=2, fmt=fmt@entry=0x7f5138936740 "*** Error in `%s': %s: 0x%s ***\n") at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/libc_fatal.c:199 malloc_printerr (action=3, str=0x7f5138936ab8 "munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer", ptr=<optimized out>) at malloc.c:4923 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/control-center-1/panels/libsound.so g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__STRINGv () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0 Title: [sound]: gnome-control-center assert failure: *** Error in `gnome-control-center': munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0x00000000034a2050 *** UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo usr_lib_gnome-control-center: deja-dup 27.3.1-0ubuntu1 [Impact] * When user change the sound effect from Default to others and then change it back the gnome-control-center will crash. [Test Case] * open gnome-control-center * enter Sound item * choose Sound Effects tab * choose Default * choose Bark * choose Default * see the crash [Regression Potential] * The fix simply NULL a pointer to avoid memory corruption. So I think it's safe enough. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/oem-priority/+bug/1236612/+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
