This happens unexpectedly. There is no pattern that I can discern. Sometimes, it can appear during system startup, sometimes while I'm browsing the internet, sometimes when I'm working in text editors... Yet, when I later start synaptic or apper they appear to be unaffected by the packagekit crash.
I'm on Kubuntu 13.10 64bit.
Description: Ubuntu 13.10
Release: 13.10
packagekit:
Installed: 0.8.10-2ubuntu2
Candidate: 0.8.10-2ubuntu2
Version table:
*** 0.8.10-2ubuntu2 0
500 http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distributions/ubuntu/ubuntu/ saucy/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: packagekit 0.8.10-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-15.23-generic 3.11.10
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-15-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Wed Jan 1 12:37:00 2014
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/packagekit/packagekitd
ExecutableTimestamp: 1381698140
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-25 (401 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120822.2)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/packagekit/packagekitd
ProcCwd: /
ProcEnviron:
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: packagekit
StacktraceTop:
?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
g_main_context_new () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
g_dbus_connection_send_message_with_reply_sync () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
Title: packagekitd crashed with signal 5 in g_main_context_new()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-12-09 (22 days ago)
UserGroups:
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.