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[Bug 1214508] Re: nvidia-settings >=319 segfaults on close

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From: Fink Nottle <prasun.gera@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:06:00 -0000
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The official version of nvidia-settings-304 in the precise-updates
repository points to version 331. So if you have precise-updates
enabled, even if you try to install the 304 version, it will install 331
by default. One needs to manually select an older version to get around
this bug.

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Title:
  nvidia-settings >=319 segfaults on close

Status in pixbuf library for gtk+:
  New
Status in “nvidia-settings” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  After installation of the latest updates of the nvidia proprietary
  blob from 310.14 to 319.32 nvidia-settings crashes when pressing the
  quit button.

  dmesg shows this:

  
  [   95.183668] nvidia-settings[2292]: segfault at 7f650be5c8a0 ip 00007f650be5c8a6 sp 00007fff69e6f5b8 error 7 in libpixbufloader-xpm.so[7f650be58000+6000]

  and this:

  [  459.549845] nvidia-settings[3534]: segfault at 7f88dba4c8a0 ip
  00007f88dba4c8a6 sp 00007ffff61e6b98 error 7 in libpixbufloader-
  xpm.so[7f88dba48000+6000]

  
  Crash reports are caught by apport and sent (I hope) to Canonical

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: nvidia-settings-experimental-310 319.32-0ubuntu0.0.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-39.60~precise1-generic 3.5.7.17
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-39-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Aug 20 20:48:24 2013
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20130213)
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: nvidia-settings-319-updates
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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