Gparted error - Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Question

On Ubuntu Gnome 15.04, Gparted will not launch from the icon. When launched from the terminal it gives the error 'Segmentation fault (core dumped)'.

It works fine on Ubuntu & Ubuntu Mate 15.04.

Answer 1

The problem is the library libglibmm, better libglibmm-2.4-1c2a

Check the output of this command:

apt-cache policy libglibmm-2.4-1c2a

Sample output:

% apt-cache policy libglibmm-2.4-1c2a
libglibmm-2.4-1c2a:
  Installed: 2.43.2-0ubuntu1~vivid1
  Candidate: 2.43.2-0ubuntu1~vivid1
  Version table:
 *** 2.43.2-0ubuntu1~vivid1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3-staging/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.42.0-1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages

Install an older version, eg: 2.42.0-1

sudo apt-get install libglibmm-2.4-1c2a=2.42.0-1

and set the package on hold:

sudo apt-mark hold libglibmm-2.4-1c2a

reversible with

sudo apt-mark unhold libglibmm-2.4-1c2a

That worked in my case.

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Output of gdbgpartedbin`

Starting program: /usr/sbin/gpartedbin

[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff6a6993a in Glib::wrap_register(unsigned long, Glib::ObjectBase* (*)(_GObject*)) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglibmm-2.4.so.1
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00007ffff6a6993a in Glib::wrap_register(unsigned long, Glib::ObjectBase* (*)(_GObject*)) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglibmm-2.4.so.1
#1 0x00007ffff6a5969e in Glib::wrap_init() () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglibmm-2.4.so.1
#2 0x0000000000418ebf in ?? ()
#3 0x00007ffff49aea40 in __libc_start_main (main=0x418e90, argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffe338, init=<optimized out>, fini=<optimized out>, rtld_fini=<optimized out>, stack_end=0x7fffffffe328) at libc-start.c:289
#4 0x0000000000419575 in ?? ()