Application: polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 (0.1) KDE Platform Version: 4.4.5 (KDE 4.4.5) (Compiled from sources) Qt Version: 4.6.3 Operating System: Linux 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 x86_64 Distribution (Platform): Gentoo Packages -- Information about the crash: I have just installed gentoo, compiled latest stable KDE SC and launched it. At startup I got a crash. Gentoo x86-64 Compile flags: "-O1 -ggdb -pipe -march=core2 -msse4 -msse4.1 -msse4.2" Using unstripped binaries Core i7 920 CPU NVIDIA GF GTX275, nvidia 260.19.29 -- Backtrace: Application: PolicyKit1-KDE (polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1), signal: Aborted [KCrash Handler] #5 0x00007f94e80b4165 in raise (sig=<value optimized out>) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:64 #6 0x00007f94e80b5580 in abort () at abort.c:92 #7 0x00007f94e3260de7 in _dbus_abort () at /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/dbus-1.4.1/work/dbus-1.4.1/dbus/dbus-sysdeps.c:94 #8 0x00007f94e325841d in _dbus_warn_check_failed (format=0x7f94e32668d0 "arguments to %s() were incorrect, assertion \"%s\" failed in file %s line %d.\nThis is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.\n") at /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/dbus-1.4.1/work/dbus-1.4.1/dbus/dbus-internals.c:289 #9 0x00007f94e323dd0a in dbus_connection_get_data (connection=0x0, slot=1) at /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/dbus-1.4.1/work/dbus-1.4.1/dbus/dbus-connection.c:5977 #10 0x00007f94e2dce599 in dbus_connection_setup_with_g_main (connection=0x0, context=0x1993d40) at /var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.88/work/dbus-glib-0.88/dbus/dbus-gmain.c:572 #11 0x00007f94e300859c in egg_dbus_connection_constructed (object=<value optimized out>) at eggdbusconnection.c:490 #12 0x00007f94e59f2350 in IA__g_object_newv (object_type=<value optimized out>, n_parameters=<value optimized out>, parameters=0x1) at gobject.c:1289 #13 0x00007f94e59f29fa in IA__g_object_new_valist (object_type=27808480, first_property_name=<value optimized out>, var_args=0x7fff7fc0dfc0) at gobject.c:1377 #14 0x00007f94e59f2b30 in IA__g_object_new (object_type=27808480, first_property_name=0x7f94e301fe12 "bus-type") at gobject.c:1095 #15 0x00007f94e30082e3 in egg_dbus_connection_get_for_bus (bus_type=EGG_DBUS_BUS_TYPE_SYSTEM) at eggdbusconnection.c:602 #16 0x00007f94e6133ba9 in polkit_unix_session_initable_init (initable=0x1a88a30, cancellable=0x0, error=0x7fff7fc0e288) at polkitunixsession.c:510 #17 0x00007f94e5777e15 in IA__g_initable_init (initable=0x1a88a30, cancellable=0x0, error=0x7fff7fc0e288) at ginitable.c:129 #18 0x00007f94e5777eb8 in IA__g_initable_new_valist (object_type=<value optimized out>, first_property_name=0x7f94e613edea "pid", var_args=0x7fff7fc0e170, cancellable=0x0, error=0x7fff7fc0e288) at ginitable.c:242 #19 0x00007f94e5777f74 in IA__g_initable_new (object_type=751, cancellable=<value optimized out>, error=<value optimized out>, first_property_name=0x0) at ginitable.c:162 #20 0x00007f94e61335f5 in polkit_unix_session_new_for_process_sync (pid=751, cancellable=0x0, error=0x7fff7fc0e288) at polkitunixsession.c:314 #21 0x00007f94e7e7a10e in PolkitQt1::UnixSessionSubject::UnixSessionSubject (this=0x1a886a0, pid=751) at /var/tmp/portage/sys-auth/polkit-qt-0.96.1/work/polkit-qt-1-0.96.1/core/polkitqt1-subject.cpp:153 #22 0x0000000000408061 in PolicyKitKDE::PolicyKitKDE (this=0x7fff7fc0e3c0) at /var/tmp/portage/sys-auth/polkit-kde-0.95.1-r1/work/polkit-kde-1-0.95.1/agent/policykitkde.cpp:32 #23 0x000000000040938c in main (argc=<value optimized out>, argv=<value optimized out>) at /var/tmp/portage/sys-auth/polkit-kde-0.95.1-r1/work/polkit-kde-1-0.95.1/agent/main.cpp:41 Reported using DrKonqi
[Comment from a bug triager] This is related to bug 248163/ bug 256404.
Looks like the crash occurs when trying to launch PolKit-KDE with dbus stopped. Can we just implement a dbus check on start instead of blunt crashing?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 248163 ***