Public bug reported: with strace I get :
$strace gurlchecker [snip] stat("/home/arthur/.gnome2", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 open("/home/arthur/.gnome2/gurlchecker.B5Y9HW", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0666) = 15 fcntl(15, F_GETFL) = 0x8002 (flags O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) fstat(15, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f309522d000 lseek(15, 0, SEEK_CUR) = 0 write(15, "\n[Placement]\nDock=\\\\0,0,0,0\n", 28) = 28 fstatfs(15, {f_type=0xf15f, f_bsize=4096, f_blocks=17595629, f_bfree=1561987, f_bavail=680725, f_files=4398688, f_ffree=2799495, f_fsid={-1043222425, 990823285}, f_namelen=143, f_frsize=4096}) = 0 lstat("/home/arthur/.gnome2/gurlchecker", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=19, ...}) = 0 fsync(15) = 0 close(15) = 0 munmap(0x7f309522d000, 4096) = 0 rename("/home/arthur/.gnome2/gurlchecker.B5Y9HW", "/home/arthur/.gnome2/gurlchecker") = 0 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV (core dumped) +++ Segmentation fault (core dumped) There doesn't seem to be a permissions problem : $ ls -alh .gnome2/gurlchecker -rw-rw-r-- 1 arthur arthur 28 Jul 31 15:04 .gnome2/gurlchecker moving the file out of the way does not solve the problem : mv .gnome2/gurlcheck out of the way d ** Affects: gurlchecker (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1031338 Title: gurlchecker crashed to a segfault in precise To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gurlchecker/+bug/1031338/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs