Bug 16679

When I click "Show Available Updates" or run gpk-update-viewer from the command-line, it immediately crashes.

I am running Fedora 9, up to date as of 2008-07-11.
I have installed the debuginfo packages, and this is the stack trace I get in gdb:

gdb gpk-update-viewer 
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(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/gpk-update-viewer 
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0xb80ad710 (LWP 1022)]
[WARN  1022] polkit-error.c:143:polkit_error_get_error_message(): error != NULL
 Not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace

** (gpk-update-viewer:1022): WARNING **: Failed to initialize PolicyKit context: (null)
[WARN  1022] polkit-error.c:156:polkit_error_free(): error != NULL
 Not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace

(gpk-update-viewer:1022): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(gpk-update-viewer:1022): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(gpk-update-viewer:1022): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(gpk-update-viewer:1022): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00936a3a in _compute_polkit_result (action=<value optimized out>) at polkit-gnome-action.c:800
800	        pk_caller = polkit_tracker_get_caller_from_pid (action->priv->pk_g_context->pk_tracker, 
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00936a3a in _compute_polkit_result (action=<value optimized out>) at polkit-gnome-action.c:800
#1  0x00938930 in set_property (object=<value optimized out>, prop_id=<value optimized out>, value=<value optimized out>, pspec=Could not find the frame base for "set_property".
) at polkit-gnome-action.c:1129
#2  0x0011f991 in g_object_constructor (type=<value optimized out>, n_construct_properties=<value optimized out>, construct_params=<value optimized out>) at gobject.c:697
#3  0x0093899b in polkit_gnome_action_constructor (type=Could not find the frame base for "polkit_gnome_action_constructor".
) at polkit-gnome-action.c:381
#4  0x001200de in IA__g_object_newv (object_type=<value optimized out>, n_parameters=<value optimized out>, parameters=<value optimized out>) at gobject.c:937
#5  0x00120cd2 in IA__g_object_new_valist (object_type=<value optimized out>, first_property_name=<value optimized out>, var_args=<value optimized out>) at gobject.c:1027
#6  0x00120e1e in IA__g_object_new (object_type=<value optimized out>, first_property_name=Could not find the frame base for "IA__g_object_new".
) at gobject.c:795
#7  0x00936fe8 in polkit_gnome_action_new_default (name=Could not find the frame base for "polkit_gnome_action_new_default".
) at polkit-gnome-action.c:1061
#8  0x0804d2ae in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffd39b4) at gpk-update-viewer.c:1910
(gdb)