mintinstall segfault after opening

[jumpjoe]

The bug that seems to be affecting 64-bit systems for Linux Mint KDE 12 has somehow arrived on Linux Mint 12 (non-KDE). When starting mintinstall I get

/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintInstall/mintinstall.py:252: SyntaxWarning: import * only allowed at module level
def get_status_description(self, transaction):
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintInstall/mintinstall.py:260: SyntaxWarning: import * only allowed at module level
def get_role_description(self, transaction):
add_categories took 2.997 ms
build_matched_packages took 0.607 ms
10172
add_packages took 7854.174 ms
add_reviews took 1458.756 ms
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintInstall/mintinstall.py:527: Warning: g_object_set_qdata: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
wTree.get_widget("main_window").show_all()
__init__ took 9596.680 ms
show_category took 16.401 ms
Segmentation fault

The location of the segfault appears to be *mostly* libdbus-1.so.3.5.7, but not always:

[149870.603164] mintinstall[30546]: segfault at 8 ip 00007f6a7ac9f8da sp 00007f6a6798bb10 error 4 in libglib-2.0.so.0.3000.0[7f6a7ac3f000+f4000]
[150191.622561] mintinstall[10142]: segfault at 4 ip 00007f08d68226b0 sp 00007fff6c13a478 error 6 in libdbus-1.so.3.5.7[7f08d67fe000+42000]
[150996.936785] mintinstall[7752]: segfault at 4 ip 00007fd8fe1006b0 sp 00007fffd3b9ded8 error 6 in libdbus-1.so.3.5.7[7fd8fe0dc000+42000]
[151038.952622] mintinstall[9351]: segfault at 4 ip 00007f55b60636b0 sp 00007fff165cbd48 error 6 in libdbus-1.so.3.5.7[7f55b603f000+42000]
[151146.309799] mintinstall[13704]: segfault at 12100000000 ip 00000000004b65af sp 00007f16196cbe70 error 4 in python2.7[400000+233000]

What's bugging me is that I have two Lenovo X220, both with Linux Mint 12 and more or less the same packages (the only notable difference is that one has cinnamon installed, while the other has not), and
this problem appears only on one of them. I am thinking it might be some configuration/caching issue for dbus or python-dbus, but I am not sure where to look.

BTW, I tried the obvious reinstallation (mintinstall, python-dbus), byte-compilation (update-python-modules), and reboot.

[xenopeek]

Can you please share the version of mintinstall you are running?

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dpkg -l mintinstall

[jumpjoe]

The latest, I assume, on both systems:

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||/ Name                                Version                             Description
+++-===================================-===================================-======================================================================================
ii  mintinstall                         7.3.5                               Software Manager

[xenopeek]

mintinstall 7.3.5 was released on January 2nd. Has it not been working since then?

You may try forcing an update from the command line:

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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

[SylentBobNJ]

I am experiencing this same issue, same version of mintinstall and same(ish) segfault on libdbus-1.so.3.5.7. I'm running in VirtualBox. Forcing the update through apt-get did not resolve this for me.

Thanks for any additional help you might provide.

-K

[xenopeek]

SylentBobNJ, if you are using KDE, you may try as a workaround to install Muon. It is similar to Software Manager. You can install it using Synaptic.

[SylentBobNJ]

Thank you! I did end up reading some other posts here regarding this issue and saw muon as an alternative. I've since installed it and it works. Not thrilled with losing Software Manager, I enjoyed reading the user feedback but it'll do.

Again, thanks for your assistance!

-K