I received the same error today on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit 3.8.0-34-generic. Not happy. Crashed my whole system while in the middle of something...
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to colord in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1021374 Title: colord crashed with SIGSEGV in cd_device_register_object() Status in Colord: Confirmed Status in “colord” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “colord” source package in Precise: Invalid Status in “colord” source package in Quantal: Fix Released Status in “colord” package in Debian: Fix Released Bug description: crashes at startup colord crashed with SIGSEGV in cd_device_register_object() ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: colord 0.1.21-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-3.3-generic 3.5.0-rc5 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-3-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.2.5-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CrashCounter: 1 Date: Thu Jul 5 09:30:50 2012 ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/colord/colord ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/colord/colord ProcEnviron: SegvAnalysis: Segfault happened at: 0x40b1dd <cd_device_register_object+157>: mov 0x8(%rax),%rbx PC (0x0040b1dd) ok source "0x8(%rax)" (0x00000008) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)! destination "%rbx" ok SegvReason: reading NULL VMA Signal: 11 SourcePackage: colord StacktraceTop: cd_device_register_object () ?? () ?? () ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0 g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 Title: colord crashed with SIGSEGV in cd_device_register_object() UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/colord/+bug/1021374/+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